"Rub-a-dub" Quotes from Famous Books
... advanced, beating no measured martial tune, but a kind of rub-a-dub-dub, like that with which the fire-drum startles the slumbering artizans of a Scotch burgh. It is the object of this history to do justice to all men; I must therefore record, in justice to the drummer, that he protested he could beat any known march or point of war ... — Waverley, Or 'Tis Sixty Years Hence, Complete • Sir Walter Scott |