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A love for his partner was usually the only tender sentiment a buccaneer allowed himself. When a number of buccaneers grew tired of plucking weeds from the tobacco ground, and felt the allurement of the sea, and longed to go a-cruising, they used to send an Indian, or a negro slave, to their fellows up the coast, inviting them to come to drink a dram with them.
The "jig" seems to have been a comic after-piece consisting of music and dancing. In Mr. Collier's Hist. of Dram. The following passage from Shirley's Love in a Maze is not noticed by Mr. Collier:
Dolly: she fell into an hysteric fit when she heard of his losses; and it was not till after she had swallowed a double dram of brandy that she was able to speak, and to tell him that she was the worst person in the world he could have applied to; for that she was in the greatest distress herself, and all her dependance in this world was upon him. Maurice stood in silent astonishment.
Only one with at least a dram of dizziness could have conceived an "eagle-baffling mountain, black, wintry, dead, unmeasured."
About eleven o'clock Mr. Jones came out to the building upon which Braddock was at work, and after chatting a little, said "This is grog time, aint it, Jim?" "Yes sir, I believe it is," was the reply. "Well, knock off then for a little while, and come into the house and take a dram." Now Mr. Jones was a very moderate drinker himself, scarcely touching liquor for weeks at a time, unless in company.
Paul," said Uncle Jake, looking confidentially at another dram which he had poured into the tin cup, "St. Paul says ther' er divers an' many wimmin, an' I reckon he know'd. Ther' er some you kin fret an some you can't. Ther's my ole 'oman: the livin' human bein' that stirs her up'll have ter frail 'er out, er she'll frail him."
"A stony adversary, an inhuman wretch, Uncapable of pity, void and empty From any dram of mercy." Shakspeare. " there, there, there! a diamond gone, cost me three thousand ducats in Frankfort! The curse never fell on our nation till now." Idem. "O sailor boy, sailor boy, peace to thy soul!" Dibdin.
The little boy never had, but he had heard of them, and he wanted to know what they were, and thereupon Uncle Remus proceeded to tell him. "One time," said the old darkey, transferring his spectacles from his nose to the top of his head and leaning his elbows upon his peg-board, "dere wuz a blacksmif man, en dish yer blacksmif man, he tuck'n stuck closer by his dram dan he did by his bellus.
Cavanagh did not trust Gregg, either, and as this was the first time he had been called upon to arrest men for killing game out of season, he could not afford to fail of any precaution. Tired and sleepy as he was, he must remain on guard. "But you and your daughter must go to bed at once," he urged. Lize, under the spur of her dram, talked on with bitter boldness.
The minister, who was a rather irascible-looking little man with a weather-reddened face and rusty whiskers, inquired of Lionel whether it was possible to procure a glass of milk; but when Lionel rang the bell and had some brought for him, the minister observed that milk by itself was a dangerous thing in the morning; whereupon the butler had to be sent for, who produced the spirit-decanter; and then, and finally, the minister, boldly discarding the milk altogether, poured out for himself a good solid dram, and drank it off with much evident satisfaction.
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