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Updated: July 12, 2025
To thy damp, drear abode in the jungle; We'll be sober and staid, And we'll drink lemonade, Try and catch us you'll make a sad bungle, Yellow Jack!" "Bumpers of sangaree!" roared the major, and sang: "Yellow Jack! Yellow Jack! hie thee back! hie thee back!
I emptied the last of the sangaree into the two pint tumblers out of which we were drinking, and holding mine up, said, "Here's better luck to you next time, O'Gawler!" As I spoke the words whish! a cannon-ball cut the tumbler clean out of my hand, and plumped into poor O'Gawler's stomach. It settled him completely, and of course I never got my seven hundred rupees.
Pinky had emptied her glass of sangaree before she was half through with her oysters, and kept urging Flora to drink. "Don't be afraid of it, dear," she said, in a kind, persuasive way; "there's hardly a thimbleful of wine in the whole glass. It will soothe your nerves, and make you feel ever so much better."
Come, and I'll show you how to brew sangaree, and sling a hammock, and oh, thousands of things, and you'll see for yourself what colour means, and we'll find out together what love means, and then, maybe, we shall be allowed to do some good work. Come away! 'Why? said Maisie. 'How can you do anything until you have seen everything, or as much as you can? And besides, darling, I love you.
In a little while she returned, with a small waiter in her hand, containing a goblet of wine sangaree and a biscuit. "Take this, Mary. It will do you good." The eyes which had not been unclosed since Mrs. Wykoff went out, were all wet as Mary Carson opened them. "Oh, you are so kind!" There was gratitude in her voice. Rising, she took the wine, and drank of it like one athirst.
COLONEL Grogwater, as she would be called, with a yellow little husband from Madras, who first taught me to drink sangaree. Once when I was a lad, Colonel Grogwater gave me two gold mohurs out of his desk for whist-markers, and I'm sorry to say I ran up from Eton and sold them both for seventy-three shillings at a shop in Cornhill.
"Thou should'st have followed me," said a voice. "Me," said another. And a steam from the sangaree rose high over Napoleon's head, and from it shaped themselves two beautiful female figures. One was fair and very youthful, with a Phrygian cap on her head, and eager eyes beneath it, and a slender spear in her hand.
Take it now; it is a sovereign remedy for all kinds of fever; I never yet knew it to fail; and then, if you are thirsty, you may have just one glass of sangaree!" I took the potion and swallowed it obediently; it had an intensely but not altogether disagreeable bitter taste; and then I quaffed the generous tumbler of sangaree that the old lady handed me. Oh, that sangaree!
At my entrance, an elderly person was smacking his lips with a zest which satisfied me that the cellars of the Province House still hold good liquor, though doubtless of other vintages than were quaffed by the old governors. After sipping a glass of port sangaree, prepared by the skilful hands of Mr.
"No word of this just yet," he murmured, ere they reached the general's door, and saw that veteran hospitably awaiting them. "It is so sudden, so sweet a surprise. Come what may now, I shall not go until I have seen you again. What, general? Sangaree? I'd like it above all things!"
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