1903 The Flowing Bowl by Edward Spencer

CONTENTS

CHAPTER X

PUNCH

Derivation of the word questioned—Not an Asiatic drink—" Pale- punts "—No relation to pale punters—Properties of rum— Xoddy as a tonic—Irish punch—Glasgie ditto—O er muckle cauld watter—One to seven—Hech sirs !—Classical sherbet —Virtues of the feet of calves—West India dry gripes— Make your own punch—No deputy allowed—Attraction of capillairc—Gin punch—Eight recipes for milk-punch University heart-chcerers. . • • Pages 101-114

CHAPTER XI

STRANGE SWALLOWS

" Wormwood !"—The little green fairy—All right when you know it, but The hour of absinthe—Awful effects Marie Corelli—St. John the Divine—Arrack and bhang not to be encouraged—Plain water—The original intoxicant Sacred beverage of the mild Hindu—Chi Chi Kafta, an Arabian delight—Friends as whisky agents Effervescent Glenlivet—The peat-reek—American bar-keeper and his best customer—"Like swallerin' a circ'lar sawand pullin it up again "-Castor-oil anecdote—" Haste to the wedding ! " 11S-125

CHAPTER XII

"the boy Definition of the youth—The valley of the Marne—An Arch bishop in sparkling company—All is not cham. that