d-d-draw

Updated: May 7, 2025

For a man who has made so many others walk the plank with poison drugs, you do it but poorly yourself," cried the captain, merrily. "You will d-d-draw your last breath with a joke, as a d-d-drunkard sips his last drop with a sigh," responded the doctor. "The captain was born with the corners of his mouth turned up like a dead man's toes," drawled the lugubrious mate.

Charles Frederic Goss - The Redemption of David Corson