Traditional Slavic sour drink.
1 I have soiled my belly with quass , and hooch, and 'Three Star.'
2 And each spoke friendly words and said that the quass was good, till all had drunk.
3 In the middle was the barrel of quass , and by it a slave to serve the drink.
4 This quass - feast was for the chiefs, and the chiefs only, and there was a score of them.
5 To not say that the quass was good were insult; to spit forth upon the ground were worse than insult.
6 But first of all, there was to be a meeting of the chiefs with Niblack, and a drowning of all enmities in quass .
7 Samuel Quass , the landlord of the Sailor's Rest, was next called.
8 Reficimus rates quassas : we tempt the ocean again and again, and try upon new ventures.
9 As Bolton had vanished next morning, Quass obeyed instructions, with the result which everyone knew.
10 "Life was too short," grumbled Quass , "to be bothered in that way."
11 The Coroner asked all manner of questions, and so did Inspector Date; but all attempts to incriminate Quass were vain.
12 Quass was glad when he saw the plump back of the cross little man, who so pertinaciously followed what everyone else had abandoned.
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