Excerpt from The Beer Shop Thomas, as they came up to the door of the beer-shop. Yes, yes, old fellow, for the sixpence - change for the six pence, and no more. I shall go in with you, said Thomas, but you will come out, and go home with me, when the sixpence is s ent Trust me 'for that, said Michael, as he pushed Open the door: his friend followed him. Was he right in following him? Perhaps not, but he thought he was, and the beer-shop was no temptation to him. He had never been drunk in his life, though he had once or twice been obliged to enter an alehouse on business. Now he went with Michael in a very watchful state, saying to himself, Be not high-minded, but fear. You'll take a drop, Tom said Michael, holding out the mug. No. Mike, I am not thirsty and if I were, I would not drink with you to-night. There was a travelling man seated in the chimney-corner, with a basket on the ground before him, and a few rabbit skins hanging from the side of it. The man looked very tired, and his little boy, who sat next him, had fallen asleep from fatigue. A very small mug, quite empty, stood on the settle before him. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.