...He was called by his fellow-workmen in the latter establishment the " Water- American ;" because he drank only water ; the other workmen, near fifty in number, were great drinkers of beer. But Franklin soon let them see that strong beer was not necessary to make a man strong, by carrying...

...version of Franklin's Autobiography, has called to mind the famous beer passage in that immortal work : " I drank only water ; the other workmen, near fifty in number, were great guzzlers • of beer. On occasion I carried up and down stairs a large form of types in each hand,...

...mixed with the composing. I drank only water ; theothe: workmen, near fifty in number, -were grre! drinkers of beer. On occasion I carried up and down stairs a large form of tvpcs in each hand, when others carried but one in boti hands; they wondered to see from this and several...

...anecdote lie tells of his practice in a London printing-office. ' I drank only water,' says he ; ' the other workmen, near fifty in number, were great drinkers of beer. On one occasion, I carried up and down stairs a large form of types in each hand, when others carried...

...immortal work : " I drank only water ; the other workmen, near fifty in number, were great guzzlers * of beer. On occasion I carried up and down stairs...hand, when others carried but one in both hands." 1 have a long list of references on this point ; but, in these cricketing, boat-racing, prize-fighting...

...want of the bodily exercise I had been us'd to in America, where presswork is mix'd with composing. I drank only water; the other workmen, near fifty in number, were great guzzlers of beer. On occasion, I carried up and down stairs a large form of types in each hand, when...

...composing. I drank only water; the other men, near fifty in number, were great drinkers of beer. On one occasion I carried up and down stairs a large form...of types in each hand, when others carried but one form in both hands. They wondered at this and several instances that the Water American, as they called...

...want of the bodily exercise I had been us'd to in America, where presswork is mix'd with composing. I drank only water ; the other workmen, near fifty in number, were great guzzlers of beer. On occasion, I carried up and down stairs a large form of types in each hand, when...

...want of the bodily exercise I had been us'd to in America, where presswork is mix'd with composing. I drank only water ; the other workmen, near fifty in number, were great guzzlers of beer. On occasion, I carried up and down stairs a large form of types in each hand, when...

...immortal work : " I drank only water ; the other workmen, nearly fifty in number, were great guzzlers * of beer. On occasion I carried up and down stairs...hand, when others carried but one in both hands." I have a long list of references on this point ; but, in these cricketing, boat-racing, prize-fighting...