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   Message 51,162 of 51,410   
   Don Freeman to Pluted Pup   
   Re: Tapping The Admiral from 1873   
   21 Feb 24 17:01:52   
   
   From: Don@cosmoslair.com   
      
   On 2/19/2024 1:16 AM, Pluted Pup wrote:   
   >   
   > Spotted a Tapping The Admiral from 1873:   
   >   
   > "Why, sir, I've heard of sailers so wild for grog,   
   > sir, that they tapped a hogshead what they know'd   
   > had a dead corpse in it, goin' over seas for burial."   
   >   
   > - middle of a paragraph of page 112 of Nothing   
   > To Drink, by Julia McNair Wright (1873)   
   >   
   >   
      
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