He never wrote or received a letter, and he never spoke with any but the neighbours, and with these, for the most part, only when drunk on rum. The great sea-chest none of us had ever seen open.
I followed him in, and I remember observing the contrast the neat, bright doctor, with his powder as white as snow and his bright, black eyes and pleasant manners, made with the coltish country folk, and above all, with that filthy, heavy, bleared scarecrow of a pirate of ours, sitting, far gone in rum, with his arms on the table.
"Fifteen men on the dead man's chest-- Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum! Drink and the devil had done for the rest-- Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!"
"Were you addressing me, sir?" says the doctor; and when the ruffian had told him, with another oath, that this was so, "I have only one thing to say to you, sir," replies the doctor, "that if you keep on drinking rum, the world will soon be quit of a very dirty scoundrel!"
Let's have a bottle of
rum!" shouted Pierre, banging the table with a determined and drunken gesture and preparing to climb out of the window.
She makes Mint money, sir, and never stands Threepenn'orth Rum.'
Get it, and bring it here to me, and earn the money for sixty threepenn'orths of rum, and drink them all, one a top of another, and drink yourself dead with all possible expedition.' The latter clauses of these special instructions he addressed to the fire, as he gave it back the ashes he had taken from it, and replaced the shovel.
He looked up in my face with all the tokens of gratitude and thankfulness that could appear in any countenance; but was so weak, notwithstanding he had so exerted himself in the fight, that he could not stand up upon his feet - he tried to do it two or three times, but was really not able, his ankles were so swelled and so painful to him; so I bade him sit still, and caused Friday to rub his ankles, and bathe them with
rum, as he had done his father's.
This was announced by the country's top
rum maker in the just-concluded first-ever
Rum Festival, institutionalized in an ordinance to be held every third week of August in Bacolod.
Tanduay, which has been hailed as the world's number one
rum for the second straight year, celebrates the source of its world-class product, the sugarcanes of the island.
DIPLOMATICO MANTUANO, VENEZUELA (PS30 FOR 70CL, WAITROSE) A luxurious sipping
rum and a real treat - rich and rounded with notes of cinnamon, nutmeg, buttered caramel, toffee and milk chocolate, polished off with a silky smooth finish.
After years in the doldrums, we're in the midst of a
rum renaissance and according to the Wine and Spirit Trade Association (WSTA), we bought almost 35 million bottles of the stuff in 2018 (worth more than PS1bn), and this golden cargo is being driven by our thirst for flavoured and spiced
rums.
Jack Denley, brand executive for Spice Hunter, says they saw the opportunity to create a genuinely spiced
rum "that once mixed, didn't get washed out, and wasn't too sweet for a proper spiced
rum and cola".
According to the latest report released by Drinks International, Tanduay is the world's
rum industry leader for the second straight year, beating erstwhile perennial leaders Bacardi, Captain Morgan and McDowell's of Diageo, thus a fitting recognition to mark the brand's 165th anniversary, according to Lucio Tan Jr., president and chief operating officer of Tanduay Distillers Inc.
