1903 The Flowing Bowl by Edward Spencer

THE AFTERMATH OF REVELRY 207

Orange ^uiniiie

is an excellent tonic. To a pint bottle of orange wine add ten grains of sulphate of quinine, cork well, and let it stand for a few days. Take a wine-glassful at a- time, either with or without a dash of soda-water. Brandy-and-Soda^ already alluded to in an earlier chapter, will get no recommendation from me, as a restorative. If quite certain of your soda-water, and of your brandy, a tumblerful on occasion will do no harm ; but do not be in too great a hurry to order this, after meeting an old friend, in a strange district. Like Wotsisname's pills, the more brandy-and-sodas you take, the more you will want; and the tendency of soda-water is distinctly lowering. As for bad soda-water— well, it will kill almost as rapidly as will bad brandy. A favourite restorative of the working man, who has been propounding abstruse political problems in the tap-room all night, is a red- herring, eaten raw, with the aid of his clasp- knife. This he will wash down with some sort of ale, or with a mixture of gin-and-peppermint, according to the state of his feelings. That old, heroic soberer the Pump, is not much used for that purpose, nowadays.

Scorcher is a rarely-employed pick-me-up. It consists of