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Originally Posted by Kevin8or
Thanks Nysaa and poohbear for the explanations and links.
I thought the dark beer, when I saw "porter," but the language is so strange:
I envision a red-faced fiddler dunking his head into a basin full of beer.  |
Beer was sold in "pint pots" - essentially large mugs - so when the fiddler raised the mug to his face to drink, the mug hid his face from view as if he had dunked his head into the mug! Dickens has some very lively - and lovely - descriptive passages.