"I'm broke. I came down here wondering whether I'd better throw myself in the drink."

"I've been in the drink," and he related the tale of his recent adventures. "Your raftsman saved my life."

When it comes to cameras, the only thing worse than dropping one on the ground is dropping one in the drink.

[H]e ain't so bad neither, when he's not in the drink. He's sorry he hit me now."

"It's no place for the loike o' yez," she said. "An' it black noight, an' men and women wild in the drink; an' Pat Harrigan insoide bloind an' mad in liquor."

I cannot tell what I may have done in the drink. I may even have told his name, though I remember nothing about it!

In the drink

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