Hard task for us Britons to like a Dutchman who dethrones his father-in-law, and drinks schnaps!

I darted to and fro from the bar, laden with mugs of beer and glasses of schnaps, incessantly, up and down.

It amounted to no more, in spite of all the beer and schnaps of the previous evening, than one dollar and four groschens.

Waiter, a round of SCHNAPS!

"Frau Schnaps," Beethoven's housekeeper during the latter years of his life; called also "The Fast-sailing Frigate" and "The Old Goose."

'Why, then, good-morning to you, for business must be minded-unlessye'll go aboard and take schnaps; you shall have a pouch-fullof tea ashore.