shellfull

Updated: June 10, 2025

"Now is he, Miss?" he said, with a hiccough: "is he? Well, a good job too, says I; a useless old landlubber he was. I doubt he's off to a warmer place than this 'ere Kerguelen Land, and I drinks his health, which, by-the-way, I never had the occasion to do before. Here's to the health of the departed," and he swallowed the shellfull of rum at a draught. "Your sentiment I echoes," said Bill.

Henry Rider Haggard - Mr. Meeson's Will