He vindicated the honour of Warbeach by drinking a match against a Yorkshire skipper till four o'clock in the morning, when it was a gallant sight, my boys, to see Hampshire steadying the defeated North-countryman on his astonished zigzag to his flattish-bottomed Billyboy, all in the cheery sunrise on the river-yo-ho!
"The Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith"
George Meredith