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...e approach that we use to solve our world problems. He should be commended for his effort: it follows in the tradition of famous predecessors such as Stafford Beer and Geoffrey Vickers who have trodden similar territory." (John P. van Gigch)...

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...don’t know why they do it! They don’t even get sick.” A forgotten glass of beer stood at his elbow; the locality was a small respectable smoking-room ... .... The woman of the house—a widow lady, she called herself—very full of Mr. Stafford; Mr. Stafford this and Mr. Stafford that… Anyhow, Cloete one eveni... ...ard by the strap and yell, ‘tuppence all the way.’ Through drink. But this Stafford was of another kind. Hell’s full of such Staffords; Cloete would m... ...and now and then gave him half a crown—because the widow lady kept Mr. 77 Stafford short of pocket-money. They had rows almost every day down in the ... ...thout the ship. Accidents will happen, says Cloete… Oh! sure to, says that Stafford; and goes on taking sips of his drink as if he had no interest in ... ...t day. “George feels a new man for a time; but all of a sudden that fellow Stafford begins to hang about the street, in sight of the house door. The f... ...er hour—and sends the ship-keeper out of the ship to fetch him a bottle of beer. Then he goes to work whittling away the forelock of the forty-five-fa... ...ude “No, you don’t”—as before. But in the pause he remembered the glass of beer at his elbow. He drank half of it, wiped his mustaches, and remarked g... ...ady, if he only knew it.” MY IMPRESSIVE RUFFIAN drank what remained of his beer, while his black, sunken eyes looked at me over the rim. “I don’t quit...

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...RWICK : (WARWICK:) LORD SCALES : (SCALES:) LORD SAY : (SAY:) SIR HUMPHREY STAFFORD : (SIR HUMPHREY:) WILLIAM STAFFORD : Sir Humphrey Stafford’s b... ...! let them be clapp’d up close. And kept asunder. You, madam, shall with us. Stafford, take her to thee. [Exeunt above DUCHESS and HUME, guarded .] We... ... here’s a cup of charneco. Third Neighbor : And here’s a pot of good double beer, neighbor: drink, and fear not your man. HORNER: Let it come, i’ f... ...e hooped pot; shall have ten hoops and I will make it felony to drink small beer: all the realm shall be in common; and in Cheapside shall my palfrey... ...E: Here I am, thou particular fellow. MICHAEL: Fly, fly, fly! Sir Humphrey Stafford and his brother are hard by, with the king’s forces. CADE: Sta... ... Two, Act IV , scene ii 66 Now have at him! [Enter SIR HUMPHREY and WILLIAM STAFFORD, with drum and soldiers .] SIR HUMPHREY : Rebellious hinds, the... ...r cottages, forsake this groom: The king is merciful, if you revolt. WILLIAM STAFFORD : But angry, wrathful, and inclined to blood, If you go forward...

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...thereof. Meanwhile, by the help of an antiquarian friend of my father, Mr. Stafford, who was great in county history, I hunted 39 Yo n g e up in the ... ...warm 60 Chantry House rooms and his club, but our antiquarian friend, Mr. Stafford, came with his wife, and revelled in the ceilings of the mul- lion... ...st settling in with a new book, or an old crabbed Latin document, that Mr. Stafford had entrusted to me to copy out fairly and translate, she would gl... ...han the more gaily-dressed country dames, and far more conversa- tion. Mr. Stafford, who had dreaded the party, pronounced her a sensible, agreeable w... ...rmination to sit up together and discover the origin of the annoyance. Mr. Stafford’s antiquarian researches had made him familiar with such mysteries... ...ouble to nobody, after he had had his bit of bread and cheese and glass of beer to his supper.’ Ay, Peter knew what young gentlemen was. He did not ex...

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...ives, and the like, and refreshments of barley-bread, beef, and very small beer, served round with a liberal hand by the troops of servants bearing th... ...bbey was in the country; but the Prioress was a noble lady of the house of Stafford, a small personage as to stature, but thoroughly alert and busi- n... ...ns bare, like the typical cells of strict con- vents. The Mother, Margaret Stafford, was a great lady, and the Benedictines of the old foundation of S... ...er worldly days to Maudelin at the Saviour’s feet, and had Mother Margaret Stafford been one whit more the ideal nun, perhaps every one would have bee... ...ts of pomp and splendour, to join them. They were the guests of Archbishop Stafford, one of the peace party, and a friend of Beaufort and Suffolk, so ... ...ing of the parvenu about him, and, unlike the Duke of York or Arch- bishop Stafford, who were free, bright, and good-natured to the meanest persons, h... ...not so large that they will make much odds to our stores. We have corn and beer enough to starve out those greedy knaves outside!’ Poor Jean was nearl... ...pon, besides the bare walls of the castle, and its rude stores of meal and beer. The old Baron was hauled down from his bed by half-a-dozen men, and p...

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...unts Kill’d by the hand of Douglas; young Prince John And Westmoreland and Stafford fled the field; And Harry Monmouth’s brawn, the hulk Sir John, Is ... ...greatness to acknowledge it. Doth it not show vilely in me to desire small beer? POINS: Why, a prince should not be so loosely studied as to remember... ...rincely got; for, by my troth, I do now remember the poor creature, small beer. But, indeed, these humble considerations make me out of love with my ... ...y thing indeed too, and roundly too. There was I, and little John Doit of Staffordshire, and black George Barnes, and Francis Pickbone, and Will Sque...

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...ddler, a chemist, a doctor, a bar- ber, a linen-draper (who brewed his own beer); a veterinary surgeon, a hardware shop, and two capacious inns. Round... ...r’s death a large and very animated and solidly built uncle in tweeds from Staffordshire, Uncle Minter, my mother’s sister’s husband, with a remarkabl... ...erable change in my circumstances; the house at Penge was given up, and my Staffordshire uncle arranged for me to lodge during school terms with a nee... ...one regarded him. “Greek epigrams on the fellows’ names,” he said. “ Small beer in ancient bottles. Let’s get a stuffed broody hen to sit on the magaz... ...pt the four or five who crowded on a ca- pacious settle, we drank a lot of beer and were often fuddled, and occasionally quite drunk, and we all smoke... ... stream of undergraduate life. We worked pretty hard, but by virtue of our beer, our socialism and suchlike heterodoxy, held ourselves to be different... ...ging. It made all women-kind mysteri- ous to me. If it had not been for my Staffordshire cousins I do not think I should have known any girls at all u... ...I do not think I should have known any girls at all until I was twenty. Of Staffordshire I will tell a little later. But I can remember still how thro... ...AR MAR MAR MAR MARGARET IN ST GARET IN ST GARET IN ST GARET IN ST GARET IN STAFFORDSHIRE AFFORDSHIRE AFFORDSHIRE AFFORDSHIRE AFFORDSHIRE 1 1 1 1 1 I ...

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...rnished, if not with the splendour, with probably more than the comfort of Stafford House. Every addition that science and art have lately made to the... ...es, or the mistake of some noble patron who turned a poet into a gauger of beer-barrels, it was all well; we were glad to be told our faults and to lo... ... for making or creating, only a little leisure for drinking, and such like beer-barrel avocations! Truly, a cutting of blocks with fine razors while w... ...nd that when he has made the working classes comfort- able, and got bitter beer put into proper-sized pint bottles, there will be nothing further for ...

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... had no milk on board, and could only give it bits of soft bread soaked in beer, and I misdoubt me whether it did not all run out at the corners of it... ... is,” replied Cis. “Then let him look well at the bottom of each barrel of beer supplied for the use of her household. There is an hon- est man, a bre... ...rgy; and at this time “Duke Humfrey’s Walk,” from the tomb of Duke Humfrey Stafford, as the twelve grand Norman bays of this unrivalled nave were call... ... there were in sanctuary from their creditors, there lurked around Humfrey Stafford’s tomb; and young Pierrepoint’s warning to guard their purses was ... ...d Humfrey. “There’s enough to apprehend when all the hot-headed Papists of Stafford and Derbyshire are waiting the signal to fire the outhouses and ca... ...-fed bullock, only killed three days since, and as prime a beast as any in Stafford.” “Ah! yea, sir. It is not the fault of the beef, but of my feeble... ... no, sir! ’Twas thus. There’s an honest man at Burton, a brewer, who sends beer week by week for this house, and very good ale it is, as I can testify... ... it possible that thou wouldst fain go back to make cheeses and brew small beer with those Yorkshire boors, rather than reign a princess? I thought th... ...Council, and the letters that had been copied on their transit through the beer barrels were read and made the subject of cross-exami- nation—still al...

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...s Old Mortality, chap. viii.: “The large black-jack filled with very small beer.” 93. Sack. A name applied to Spanish and Canary wines in general; but... ... iv. 4: “The bowl ... which must be upsey En- glish, strong, lusty, London beer.” 98. Kerchief. See on iii. 495 above. 100. Gillian. A common old Engl... ...o not shame to tell you what I was,” etc. 170. Needwood. A royal forest in Staffordshire. 171. Poor Rose, etc. The MS. reads: “‘My Rose,’—he wiped h... ...ee he gave his gifts. [FN#10] “This story is still current in the moors of Stafford- shire, and adapted by the peasantry to their own meridian. I have...

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... that was killed by any man, such is his fierceness and swiftness.” Richard Stafford’s Letter from the Bermudas. Phil. Trans. A.D. 1668. 8 Extracts “W... ...se (probably an inferior article). 550 ankers of Geneva. 10,800 barrels of beer. Most statistical tables are parchingly dry in the reading; not so in ... ...r. At the time, I devoted three days to the studious digesting of all this beer, beef, and bread, during which many profound thoughts were incidentall... ...nvivial natives pledge each other in bumpers of train oil. The quantity of beer, too, is very large, 10,800 barrels. Now, as those polar fisheries coul... ...ow Dutch seamen in all; therefore, I say, we have precisely two barrels of beer per man, for a twelve weeks’ allowance, exclusive of his fair proporti... ... his fair proportion of that 550 ankers of gin. Now, whether these gin and beer harpooneers, so fuddled as one might fancy them to have been, were the...

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...crooked blinds of the people cooped within. Nor can you presently pass the beerhouse with its brighter gas and its queer, screening windows, nor get a... ...o the high road. The high road ascended in a curve past a few houses and a beerhouse or so, and round until all the valley in which four industrial to... ... coppice full of blue-bells, halfway along the high- road between Leet and Stafford. Here I had spent the after- noon, experimenting and practising wi... ...unusually quiet and empty, but beyond the corner, where the first group of beershops clustered, it became populous. It was very quiet still, even the ... ...d the next morning it opened with a mighty clatter, and was a dirty little beerhouse that stank of beer, and there was a fat and grimy landlord with r... ...he told his story in an Anglian accent that sounded mean and clipped to my Staffordshire ears; he told his story with- out a thought of pride, and as ...

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... In reply , the Judge, on July 22, wrote in the midst of the circuit, from Stafford, a letter that might well do a son’s heart good:— ‘I rejoice in yo... ...arts, sham railway- trains and riding-horses, confectionery of every kind, beer of every name, strength, and colour, pipes, cigars, toys, gam- bling, ... ...isfied with less than any people I ever saw (barring two things, smoke and beer, in which they are insatiable). I went out to see it all, but it rathe... ...s and pumpkin (very good indeed), jam pudding, bread, and plenty of water (beer I refused). It did taste so good, I am quite ashamed of thinking about... ...fashion. Come, my friend, and sit with us,” and deposited three bottles of beer at my feet, while provisions enough for Dan Lambert were stored around... ...in of me. However, I had already eaten a mouldy biscuit and had a glass of beer at the house of the Chinawoman, so I only said grace for them, and aft...

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...acy, I cut off my hair, I dis- guised myself as a woodman. One day spent amidst the branches of an oak gave to that tree the name of the royal oak, wh... ...ly; “we must preserve order in all things.” “That is likewise my opinion; but with you, M. d’Artagnan—” “And if I should die yonder — if I should be k... ...r part of the room. The two men who had pushed the strugglers with their feet were assailed with abuse by the sailors, who had become reconciled. One ... ... de corps, all the comrades of the conquered man fell upon the conqueror. The latter, with the same coolness of which he had given proof, without comm... ...tend to pre- fer evil to good. Now, in times past all went wrong with me, and every month found a fresh hole in my cassock and in my skin, a gold crow...

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...ickshire and Worcestershire, to a house called Holbeach, on the borders of Staffordshire. They tried to raise the Catholics on their way, but were ind... ...ht, with not more than sixty followers, to the house of a Catholic lady in Staffordshire. There, for his greater safety, the whole sixty left him. He ... ...id live with him once; but I have no time to talk now. We’ll have a pot of beer together when I come back.’ From this dangerous place he returned to T... ...itter were they, I grieve to say, that they im peached the venerable Lord Stafford, a Catholic nobleman seventy years old, of a design to kill the Ki...

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............................................................................122 Stafford’s Cabin ........................................................... ...thing around me Shut them out of my sight. But the gilded Signs of a hundred beers and whiskeys Flashed from the walls above, and the mirrors And glas... ... As on two that have no longer much of anything to tell.” 124 E.A. Robinson Stafford’s Cabin Once there was a cabin here, and once there was a man; A... ...hes that were left, or anywhere, A sign to tell of who or what had been with Stafford there. “Stafford was a likely man with ideas of his own — Though... ..., as I take it, The sinew and the solvent of our Island, You’d not be buying beer for this Terpander’s Approved and estimated friend Ben Jonson; 129 ...

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...rove down to Florida to see as many beaches and women and to drink as much beer as we could in a week and a half. It was great, I knew all my papers w... ...I failed, which I didn t. After I got back from the sand, surf, women, and beer, I thought to myself, now what? Well it s prom time, let s dance. I... ...ery job; you don’t know what’s going to hapen until you try it.” — William Stafford with us. While my parents were standing in the corridor, both appr...

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...t kinds, as of Orleans, Gascon, Rhenish, and Spanish. The general drink is beer, which is prepared from barley, and is excellently well tasted, but st... ...devolved to his daughter. Brook, Baron Cobham, Warden of the Cinque Ports. Stafford, Baron Stafford, reduced to want; he is heir to the family of the ... ... of the greatest always of the Austrian embracements, for both himself and Stafford that preceded him might well have been compared to him in the Gosp... ...Munster, and, the more to distract you, in several places, as, at Kinsale, Beerhaven, and Baltimore; where, you may be sure, coming from sea, they wil...

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...here arise to a benevolent mind. SAMUEL J OHNSON WAS born at Lichfield, in Staffordshire, on the 18th of September, N. S., 1709; and his initiation in... ... 1736, there is the following advertisement: ‘At Edial, near Lichfield, in Staffordshire, young gentlemen are boarded and taught the Latin and Greek l... ... be exhibited, he constantly spurned the invitation. ‘Two young women from Staffordshire visited him when I was present, to consult him on the subject... ... that all her em- ployment now is, “To suckle fools, and chronicle small-beer.” She tells the children, “This is a cat, and that is a dog, with four... ... Here I used to play at draughts with Phil. Jones and Fludyer. Jones loved beer, and did not get very forward in the church. Fludyer turned out a scou... ...d got into high spirits. I felt all my Toryism glow in this old capital of Staffordshire. I could have offered incense genio loci; and I indulged in l... ...William Forbes said, ‘Might not a man warmed with wine be like a bottle of beer, which is made brisker by being set before the fire?’—’Nay, (said John... ...us modes which he tried of getting money, he became a partner with a small-beer brewer, and he was to have a share of the profits for procuring custom... ...that I had travelled all the preced- ing night, and gone to bed at Leek in Stafford- shire; and that when I rose to go to church in the afternoon, I w...