1869 Cooling Cups and Dainty drinks by William Terrington

160

Cups,

Sfc.

ing. This was why the loving cup possessed a F. W. FavrholL “ You may pay too dear for your whistle/’ evi- dently originated with the whistle brought to Scot- land by a Danish gentleman in the train of Queen Anne of Denmark, with which he challenged all He who could at the termi- nation of the drinking bout blow the whistle, was to keep it as a trophy of his powers as a worthy champion of Bacchus. After making many exclaim with Silenus “ Innumerable pains I now endure Through thee, 0 Bacchus !” he was encountered and worsted by Sir Robert Lawrie, of Maxwelton, who, after three days and cover.” Scottish bacchanalians to compete with him in powers of drinking.

his Scandinavian antagonist

nights’

contest,

left

under the table,

“ And blew on the whistle his requiem shrill.’’ It is on the contest for this whistle that Bums founded the ballad of “The Whistle”

“ I sing of a 'Whistle, a Whistle of worth I sing of a Whistle, the pride of the North,

Was brought to the Court of our good Scottish King, And long with this Whistle all Scotland shall ring.” “ If you want any more you must whistle for it,” came from a vessel having a whistle attached to it,