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The Spouter Inn Quotes

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Herman Melville
“Abominable are the tumblers into which he pours his poison. Though true cylinders without—within, the villainous green goggling glasses deceitfully tapered downwards to a cheating bottom. Parallel meridians rudely pecked into the glass, surround these footpads’ goblets. Fill to t h i s mark, and your charge is but a penny; to t h i s a penny more; and so on to the full glass—the Cape Horn measure, which you may gulp down for a shilling.”
Herman Melville, Moby Dick

Herman Melville
“Abominable are the tumblers into which he puts his poison. Though true cylinders without—within, the volcanos green goggling glasses deceitfully tapered downwards to a cheating bottom. Parallel meridians rudely pecked into the glass, surround these footpads’ goblets. Fill to t h i s mark, and your charge is but a penny; to t h i s a penny more; and so on to the full glass—the Cape Horn measure, which you may gulp down for a shilling.”
Herman Melville, Moby Dick