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Makes seventeen pints of water; has twitchings of his limbs in a morning, and pains of his legs: he now takes a dram of rosin for a dose, and continues the opium. Water more coloured, and reduced to sixteen pints, and he thinks has a brackish taste. Water reduced to fourteen pints. Water thirteen pints: he continues the opium, and takes four scruples of the rosin for a dose. February 1.

He told me that he kept himself warm by day in the dram- shops; that he nourished himself on the bits of bread in these drinking places, when they were given to him; and when he was driven out of them, he came hither to the Lyapinsky house for a free lodging.

Lionel ventured to ask. "She has tried it," her brother said, as he called up Roderick and gave him a dram out of his capacious flask. "And I think she might shoot very well, but she doesn't care about it. It is too violent, she says. The sudden bang disturbs the charm of the scenery something of that kind I'm not up in these things; but she's an odd kind of girl.

There is recorded an account of a man of sixty-four who was killed by a solution containing slightly over a dram of phenol. Hind mentions recovery after the ingestion of nearly six ounces of crude phenol of 14 per cent strength. There was a case at the Liverpool Northern Hospital in which recovery took place after the ingestion with suicidal intent of four ounces of crude carbolic acid.

I am wishing that you could be with us on the road on such a day, for every man would be stopping and getting his dram, and giving his good wishes to the pair before he would be going on with his business. And Hugh would be speaking for his wife and himself, and giving his thanks to the folk for their well-wishing.

"Well, dear Xury," said I, we will both go ashore, both kill wild mans, and they "shall eat neither of us." So giving Xury a piece of rusk-bread to eat, and a dram, we waded ashore, carrying nothing with us but our arms, and two jars for water.

"The damned Southern upstart," growled Teerswell, forgetting Stillings' birth-place. "Do you mean to say he's actually slated for the place?" "He's sure of it, unless something turns up." "Well, who'd have dreamed it?" Teerswell mixed another stiff dram. "And that isn't all," came Sam Stillings' unctuous voice. Teerswell glanced at him.

He nodded, twice or thrice, to a passing friend; and, resisting as many invitations to take a morning dram, pressed steadily onward, until they were clear of the turmoil, and had made their way through Hosier Lane into Holborn. 'Now, young 'un! said Sikes, looking up at the clock of St. Andrew's Church, 'hard upon seven! you must step out. Come, don't lag behind already, Lazy-legs! Mr.