rum-room

Updated: May 13, 2025

There was a strong, winey smell. And in the middle of the floor sat a little boy, about eight years old, crying bitterly. "I declare, it is the pirates' rum-room!" said Jip in a whisper. "Yes. Very rum!" said Gub-Gub. "The smell makes me giddy." The little boy seemed rather frightened to find a man standing there before him and all those animals staring in through the hole in the broken door.

Hugh Lofting - The Story of Doctor Dolittle