'There's nothing like a dram for ye - if ye'll take my advice of it; and bein' as it's Christmas, I'm no' saying,' he added, with a fatherly smile, 'but what I would join ye mysel'.' 'I'll give you a dram when we've got through,' said he, affecting a sprightliness which sat on him most unhandsomely,

"Daryalov, Poltavsky, Prince Karibanov, Count Paskudin, Dram ....

The men who stood round much approved this speech, and one of them said, "It is desperate hard, and if a man sometimes does what is wrong it is no wonder, and if he gets a dram too much who's to blow him up?"

She snatched the bottle out of my hands--drank off another dram , shook her head at me, and ejaculated lamentably: "My nerves, my nerves!

"They'll church you if you sip a dram , And damn you if you steal a lamb; Yet rob old Tony, Doll, and Sam, Of human rights, and bread and ham; Kidnapper's heavenly union.

However, I was glad to see the boy so cheerful, and I gave him a dram (out of our patron's case of bottles) to cheer him up.

He had gone there, taken the silver cross off his neck and asked for a dram for it.

Meanwhile, Simon turned on his heel, and marched up to the bar of the boat for a dram .

Each drank a comfortable dram , and left the spot, with so many jests, and such laughter at their unaccomplished wickedness, that they might be said to have gone on their way rejoicing.

The mistress sent her maid for a small dram cup, which held about two gallons, and filled it with drink.