1642-1892Legends of Woburn, now first written and preserved in collected form ..to which is added a chrono-indexical history of Woburn . Last Years Balance. A DREAM IN A WOBURN UQUOR T was the last day of the year, andMr. Agnew, who kept a licensedliquor saloon, had just closed hisplace of business for the night. He sold all sorts of liquors—rum,gin, brandy, whiskey, lager beer, ale, and a novelkind of his own composition called Stickle, forwhich he charged an extra price. A part of theseliquors he sold at wholesale to numerous secret unli-censed dealers ; and a part he retailed over
1642-1892Legends of Woburn, now first written and preserved in collected form ..to which is added a chrono-indexical history of Woburn . Last Years Balance. A DREAM IN A WOBURN UQUOR T was the last day of the year, andMr. Agnew, who kept a licensedliquor saloon, had just closed hisplace of business for the night. He sold all sorts of liquors—rum,gin, brandy, whiskey, lager beer, ale, and a novelkind of his own composition called Stickle, forwhich he charged an extra price. A part of theseliquors he sold at wholesale to numerous secret unli-censed dealers ; and a part he retailed over his ownbar, on all of which he realized a profit of at leastseventy-five per cent. All of his assistants had been released for the nightexcept his errand boy, Phil Meyer, and his fat book-keeper, Tim Slyer. Phil was engaged in putting the various bottles inplace, and cleaning the floor, bar, chairs, etc., as wellas a cold and drowsy boy could do at eleven oclockat night. Slyer was in the meantime busily engaged at his 70 desk in the Counting Room, running columns offigures up and down in a tall ledger, until Phil thoughthe had gone mad, and would keep him there allnight. At length a
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