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Then his comrade would look him up and chaff him unmercifully when he found him hanging to his knotty cord like a smoked ham , and he would call to him to come down and have a glass of wine . And that settled it . The zinc-worker would send the job to blazes and commence a booze which lasted days and weeks . Oh , it was a famous booze -- a general review of all the dram shops of the neighborhood , the intoxication of the morning slept off by midday and renewed in the evening ; the goes of `` vitriol '' succeeded one another , becoming lost in the depths of the night , like the Venetian lanterns of an illumination , until the last candle disappeared with the last glass ! That rogue of a hatter never kept on to the end . He let the other get elevated , then gave him the slip and returned home smiling in his pleasant way . He could drink a great deal without people noticing it .