She asked us to sit down and take a dram.

Some excellent brandy was served round immediately, according to the custom of the Highlands, where a dram is generally taken every day.

There was a comfortable parlour with a good fire, and a dram went round.

Corri had a brandy-bottle and glass with him, and insisted I should take a dram.

His silver coin is what we call Thartarian drams, being equal to one and a half of the Arabian dram.

Gentleman Jim, maddened by a course of dram-drinking, blinded by an infatuation that itself constituted insanity, was hardly to be considered an accountable being.

A magnificent old toddy-mixer, Bardolphian in hue and stern of aspect, as all grog-dispensers must be, accustomed as they are to dive through the features of men to the bottom of their souls and pockets to see whether they are solvent to the amount of sixpence, answered my question by a wave of one hand, the other being engaged in carrying a dram to his lips.

" "He came here this afternoon, very far gone; he had been crooking his elbow pretty frequently, and was so very drunk that I advised him to go home and go to bed; so he took another dram and went away, and I haven't seen him since.

"It was some broken wittlesand a dram of liquorand a pie.

Meantime, take a dram, dear Peggy, and get home to bed.

As the water is generally very foul, they come out in a dirty condition; but after taking a dram, they put on dry clothes, remount their horses, and ride full gallop round the confines of the town, when they return, sword in hand, and are met by women decorated with ribands, bells, &c. ringing and dancing.

Cayenne-pepper, vinegar, and few home-made pickles, are also usually produced to relish the simple fare, which, served up twice a day, forms, with tea-water and the soopie, or dram of Cape brandy, the amount of their luxuries.

"I cannot say I shall not," returned the stranger, paying for the dram he had barely tasted; "it greatly depends on the result of my inquiries concerning the different vessels in the port.

Enervated by dram-drinking, he had not the courage to obtain a bit of forest and settle; but he could earn seven shillings a day by his labour.

The mayor said in summary: "Of the 573 slaves fined or committed to the workhouse nearly the whole were arrested for being out at night without tickets or being found in the dram shops or other unlawful places.

Thus again teetotalism and the really degraded gin-selling and dram-drinking have exactly the same moral philosophy.

And were I the chooser, a dram of well-doing should be preferred before many times as much the forcible hindrance of evil-doing.

"The generous wine of Fielding," says Taine, "in Smollett's hands becomes brandy of the dram-shop."

Lately, in Canada, the wife may, after she is reduced to poverty, forbid the dram-seller to sell her husband any more liquor.

If women had a voice in the making of the laws, how long would the dram-shop and low groggery send out their liquid poison to pollute civilized lands?

Immediately I gave him a dram; and a piece of bread to cherish him, and asked him, What countryman he was?

Hereupon I bid Friday speak to him, and tell him of his deliverance; when pulling out my bottle I made the poor wretch drink a dram; which, with the joyful news he had received, so revived his heart that he sat up in the boat.

I likewise gave him a dram for himself, & two or three bunches of raisins for his father.

Both these he carried to him, for he would make him drink the dram to comfort him.

Again, condiments, like all other stimulants, must be continually increased in quantity, or their effect becomes diminished; and this leads directly to a demand for stronger stimulants, both in eating and drinking, until the probable tendency is toward the dram-shop.