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Certainly it must have seemed as if that rum had fallen out of the sky, the last thing those chilled and lonesome men could have hoped for out there in the inhospitable solitude. One of our reasons for seeking Little Wood Cay, which it proved had been close by all the time, was that it is one of the few cays where one can get fresh water. "Good water here," says the chart.
Mobs began to sweep the streets of Paris, phrensied with rum and rage, and all law was set at defiance. The king, mild in temperament, and with no force of character, was extremely averse to any measures of violence. The queen, far more energetic, with the spirit of her heroic mother, would have quelled these insurrections with the strong arm of military power.
So enormous were the profits made in this debasing trade that very few of the officers could refrain from joining it. Soon the New South Wales Corps became like one great firm of spirit merchants, engaged in the importing and retailing of rum. The most enterprising went so far as to introduce stills and commence the manufacture of spirits in the colony.
"Rum! did you say rum?" cried old Thompson, lifting his head off the pillow, and staring stupidly at Newton; "where?" "On deck. Two casks: we picked them up as we were standing off the land." "Picked them up? are they on board?" inquired the master, sitting upright in his bed and rubbing his eyes. "Yes, they're on board. Won't you come on deck?" "To be sure I will.
"Only," he went on, after wiping his moustache vigorously with a red pocket-handkerchief "only it was rum, dearie rum, you know, for heavy weather. It puts heart into the men." His face suddenly clouded over again. "And we've run into heavy weather, haven't we? Just the hand of God." "Finish the glass," said Eve, and she stood over him while he drank the wine.
Their rum, which had been kindly supplied them by Lieutenant Matson, they were happy to find was nearly all consumed, and the number of their general visitors had diminished in exact proportion to the decrease of the spirit, so that they were now beginning to feel the enjoyment of an hour or two's quiet in the course of the day, which was a luxury they could hardly have anticipated.
As for me, I had an afternoon of excitement in the court, fascinated by the marvels of its procedures, by the impassioned speeches of its advocates, by the gravity of its judges. Ambition stirred within me. The big room of the tavern was filled with men in heated talk over the day's doings, some calling out for black betty, some for rum, and some demanding apple toddies.
Next day he visited the spot with his police, and he found that the dead wood covered a large pile of corpses of the natives shot by his own black troopers, and he directed them to make it a holocaust. The white men brought with them three blessings for the natives rum, bullets, and blankets.
Jack, Pharaoh and his host were drowned in the Red Sea, you know; that proves the Bible is all true. Well, Jack, and what else did you see? "`Why, granny, when I was in the West Indies, I saw whole mountains of sugar, and the rivers between them were all rum. "`True, true, said the old woman, smacking her lips; `we get all the sugar and rum from there, you know.
I want to have a talk with you. 'Rum, said Mike, as the door closed. 'I wonder what's up? For a wonder his conscience was free. It was not as if a bad school-report might have arrived in his absence. His Sedleigh report had come at the beginning of the holidays, and had been, on the whole, fairly decent nothing startling either way.
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