But beer, never--or, at all events, hardly ever." It is a good and useful resolution, which I recommend to all travellers.
I only wish I could keep to it myself.

George, although I urged him, refused to bind himself by any such hard and fast limit.

He said that in moderation German beer was good.
"One glass in the morning," said George, "one in the evening, or even two.

That will do no harm to anyone." Maybe he was right.

It was his half-dozen glasses that troubled Harris and myself.
"We ought to do something to stop it," said Harris; "it is becoming serious." "It's hereditary, so he has explained to me," I answered.