lachrimac

Updated: May 13, 2025

Well then, after this fearful scene has continued for, I dare not say how long the black butler ay, the black butler, a slave himself oh, my friends, even the black butlers are slaves the very men who minister the wine in health which maketh their hearts glad, and the castor oil in sickness, which maketh them any thing but of a cheerful countenance this very black butler is desired, on peril of having a drumstick stuck into his own gizzard also, and his skull fractured by the aforesaid iron ladles red hot, it may be ay, and who shall say they are not full of molten lead? yes, molten lead does not our reverend brother Lachrimac Roarem say that the ladles might have been full of molten lead, and what evidence have we on the other side, that they were not full of molten lead?

Michael Scott - Tom Cringle's Log