r-u-m

Updated: May 18, 2025

"Yah, yah, yah you know de wery identical medicine for de wery identical disease, don't you? dat is just what natur was callin' for eber so bad." "Natur," sais I, "what's that, spell it." "R-u-m," said he, "dat is human natur, and whiskey is soft sawder, it tickle de troat so nice and go down so slick. Dem is de names my old missus used to gib 'em.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton - Nature and Human Nature