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The singing ceased in an instant, and then Randall's voice answered "Hallo! what is it?" "Come aboard and get a glass of grog. Tell the men in the other boats they can follow in turn."
It was now the turn of the captain, and there is no doubt he was no longer the man that we have seen; sudden relief, the sense of perfect safety, a square meal and a good glass of grog, had all combined to relax his vigilance and depress his energy. "When was this done?" asked the doctor, looking at the wound. "More than a week ago," replied Wicks, thinking singly of his log.
Or else the mere fact of being a landsman was of as little consequence to the press-gang, as the protecting papers which Kinraid had vainly showed. 'Yon fellow wouldn't have been worth his grog this many a day, and be d d to you, said he, catching Hepburn by the shoulder, and giving him a push. Philip stumbled over something in this, his forced run.
Well, if it isn't past one I'm a sinner. It's Friday morning and I mus'n't ate a morsel myself, poor papist that I am; but I'll get you a bit of cold mate and a drop of grog in a moment if you'll take it." Neville, however, refused the hospitable offer. "Father Marty," he said, speaking with a zeal which perhaps owed something of its warmth to the punch, "you shall find that I am a gentleman."
His love of grog eventually brought on delirium tremens, and his excessive irritability in the interval between each attack was a source of anxiety to all who came in contact with him.
He had only time to exclaim to his new ally, "My dear fellow, get me some brandy and water, for the love of mercy" when he blew up, with an explosion like the bursting of a steam boiler "Oh dear, oh dear," we could hear him murmuring in the lulls of his agony then another loud report "there goes my yesterday's supper hot grog and toasted cheese" another roar, as if the spirit was leaving its earthly tabernacle "dinner claret Madeira all cruel bad in a second edition cheese, teal, and ringtail pigeon black crabs calapi and turtle soup" as his fleshly indulgences of the previous day rose up in judgment against him, like a man's evil deeds on his death bed.
He ran and leaped along, and before another sea came had reached the fore-hatch. His first care was to make the rope fast to the windlass. Then he slipped off the hatch and descended. He soon again appeared, and succeeded in reaching the after part of the vessel with a good supply of food and a can. "There," he said, "that's full of honest grog; it will do all hands good.
It cannot be wrong to rob a robber. It is not robbery to take back one's own. Foul means are admissible when fair yet it is a sneaking thing to do! Ha! who said it was sneaking?" Lantry, your grog is too fiery. It was the grog that spoke, not conscience. Pooh! I don't believe in conscience. Come, Tom, don't be a fool, but go and Mother! What has she got to do with it?
It was a stuff in a bottle which he used to take with his grog, and we suspected that he took it as an excuse for an extra glass of spirits.
"It would be so much precious time lost. We can pull well enough if we have the will. The grog would not give you any real strength, and you'd be as thirsty as before a few minutes afterwards. Can't one of you strike up a tune, and see if that don't help us along." There was no response to this appeal, so Tom himself at once began shouting a no very melodious ditty.
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