LET the pot-valiant Falstaff, with his twenty stone, rant and rave about his sack-drinking capacity. He had nothing on the late James Drage, Kalgoorlie mining engineer, who weighed twenty-five stone. He used, so it was sworn, to stand at the bar for a couple of hours and drink successive copious potations of beer, gin and whisky, and then walk home, as straight as the flight of an arrow, for tea! ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 5,706 wordsSO far Bacchus had sat in state, guiding the destinies of the case unchallenged. Came Alma Angel to take ...
Article : 63 words“HE used to stand at the bar for a couple of hours before he went home for tea,” said one witness in the Drage ...
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Truth (Perth, WA : 1903 - 1931), Sun 28 Sep 1930, Page 9
It's easy and takes two shakes of a lamb's tail!
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