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I was ordered down into the cabin, for it was too cold for the captain to show his face on deck. I found his lordship sitting before a good fire, with his toes in the grate; a decanter of Madeira stood on the table, with a wine glass, and most fortunately, though not intended for my use, a large rummer.
Abbas explained that this was merely a cannon shot, announcing the new moon of Ramazan. That loud call of the faith evidently made Dizful a rummer place than it normally was. Matthews soon got used to the daily repetitions of the sound, rumbling off at sunset and before dawn into the silence of the plains.
Paul's Churchyard; at The Crown alehouse near Drury Lane; at The Apple Tree tavern near Covent Garden; at The Rummer and Grapes tavern, in Charnel Row, Westminster.
He advised me to go to a tavern, which he pointed out to me 'The Rummer; he told me a circumstance, which convinced me of the humanity of the master of the house. It was suspected that he carried away some of the provision, and a waiter at length communicated his suspicions to the master of the house. He watched the stranger, and actually detected him putting a large mince-pie into his pocket.
Had they been without the walls of the college, there would have been a riot; but, having no other ventilator for their magnanimity, they fell with redoubled fury to drinking, and the jolly tutor proposed a rummer round 'D n me, said Hector, 'that's a famous thought! But you are a famous deep one, d n me!
Ransacking the town in quest of pressable subjects of Her Majesty, they came one day to the "Cock and Rummer" in Bow Street, where a big dinner was in progress. Here nothing would suit their tooth but mine host's apprentice, and as ill-luck would have it the apprentice was cook to the establishment and responsible for the dinner.
'His gills'll look rummer when he wakes; won't they? says Bob. Pleasant hopes not. Why? 'When he finds himself here, you know, Bob explains. 'Cause Miss Abbey forbid him the house and ordered him out of it. But what you may call the Fates ordered him into it again. Which is rumness; ain't it?
The glover was soon heard loudly summoning Dorothy, and, after some clanking of keys and trampling up and down stairs, Dorothy appeared bearing three large rummer cups of green glass, which were then esteemed a great and precious curiosity, and the glover followed with a huge bottle, equal at least to three quarts of these degenerate days.
'Not but what the labourer is worthy of his hire, went on Master Ratsey; 'so spile that little breaker of Schiedam, and send a rummer round to keep off midnight chills. He loved a glass of the good liquor well, and with him 'twas always the same reasoning, namely, to keep off chills; though he chopped the words to suit the season, and now 'twas autumn, now winter, now spring, or summer chills.
Now the lassies, Margaret and Helen, were in the mood for a ploy, and Margaret it was who scraped the little white powder from Helen's polished nail. "But," said Helen, "I will be my own cup-bearer, or maybe the charm will be a useless thing." And she took the old glass a rummer it was and she carried it very daintily to the boys and bowed.
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