First draught

... for while I was still weak as a Hebrew's toddy I was chipper in mind with all perils past


Flashman and the Tiger, p.161, Harper Collins, paperback edition 2000.


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Nothing so cheering

With the danger safely past, I was soon in good fettle again. As I’ve said before, there’s nothing so cheering as surviving a peril in which companions have perished, and our losses had been heavy.

Flash For Freedom!, p.85, Pan edition, 8th printing, 1980.

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