I wonder whether you and he have had any tongue-work already.

watchet:

Here, in the transept and choir, where the service was being held, one was conscious every moment of an increasing brightness; colours glowing vividly beneath the circular chandeliers, and the rows of small lights on the choristers' desks flashed and sparkled in front of the boys' faces, deep linen collars, and red neckbands.

As an antiliquor tract, temperance literature was meant, scripturelike, to show drunkards their sinful ways and to lead them to a life of sobriety which would herald financial and social prosperity.