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Trelawney, being a very open-handed gentleman, as we all know, has just asked me a word or two, and as I was able to tell him that every man on board had done his duty, alow and aloft, as I never ask to see it done better, why, he and I and the doctor are going below to the cabin to drink your health and luck, and you'll have grog served out for you to drink our health and luck.
His ordinary government allowance of spirits, one gill per diem, is not enough to give a sufficient to his listless senses; he pronounces his grog basely watered; he scouts at it as thinner than muslin; he craves a more vigorous nip at the cable, a more sturdy swig at the halyards; and if opium were to be had, many would steep themselves a thousand fathoms down in the densest fumes of that oblivious drug.
There is more drinking and rioting at the diggings than elsewhere, the privacy and risk gives the obtaining it an excitement which the diggers enjoy as much as the spirit itself; and wherever grog is sold on the sly, it will sooner or later be the scene of a riot, or perhaps murder.
The inquirer blushes to find that the answer is in the paltry equivocation, that they skip a day or two. "Why an Englishman must go to the Continent to weaken his grog or punch." But when I came to the next question and its answer, I felt that patience ceased to be a virtue.
Many of the professors were good fellows, that liked grog fully as well as Greek, and understood short whist, and five and ten quite as intimately as they knew the Vulgate, or the confessions of St.
It's only a make-believe, after all," observed Jack Windy, as he tossed off his grog, dinner being over. The men had not left their seats, when, on a sudden, a loud low roar was heard. "All hands on deck!" shouted Mr Collinson. "All hands on deck!" echoed the voice of the acting boatswain, piping shrilly as he spoke. The men rushed from below.
However, the crews would have none of it, so Cook and his officers made use of it whenever cane was procurable, and gave himself: "no trouble either to oblige or persuade them to drink it, knowing there was no danger of scurvy so long as we had plenty of other vegetables, but that I might not be disappointed in my views, I gave orders that no grog should be served in either ship."
We used to foregather in some comfortable grog shop and discuss. Ah, life and letters were talked about a great deal in those days." His voice had the sound of a man casually relating incidents of his past. But his eyes continued to shine eagerly. And between sentences there were curious pauses. The pauses asked something. "A most curious thing occurred the other evening," he smiled.
When they had got well away to the eastward and were beating up against a stiff northerly breeze, David Bright who stood near the helm of the Evening Star, said to his son in a peculiarly low voice "Now, Billy, you go below an' fetch me a glass of grog."
"Take a drop just by way of a medicine to keep you awake and tide you over this bout; and, by good luck, your man Gunter has some grog left in that bottle he got yesterday from the Coper." "Billy," said David, in a quiet voice, without deigning a reply to his foe, "Billy, my lad, you fetch me a pot o' coffee or tea whatever's ready, an' let it be hot."
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