Stave 1
Cards (12)
- mankind was my business
- as dead as a doornail
- solitary as an oyster
- open their shut up hearts freely
- Hard and sharp as flint
- the fog and darkness thickened
- portly gentlemen
- if they had rather die they had better do it and decrease the surplus population
- no wintry weather chill him
- Tight-fisted at the grindstone
- Cold, bleak, biting weather
- He had a melancholy dinner in his usual melancholy tavern