1906 How to Mix Drinks Compiled Selected and Concocted by G Spaulding and W Rositer

HOW TO i\I l X DR I :\" KS.

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TOASTS (Cont'd) . NEW HAMPSHIRE.

A toast to old New Hampshire , boys, Whose temp'ranee laws we're hissing ; If they could view This jolly crew, They'd know what fun the y ' r e missing. NEW JERSEY. New Jersey, home of toasts and ''skeeters i ' ' No one can starve in that state bright, For the kindly·hearted mosquitoes Ar� always ready to "give you a. bite. " NEW MEXICO. You may have fame, you may have wealth, But com e to us if you want health. NEW YORK. The " Emp i re State, " good old New York, The stars will even twinkle When you tell the story of Poor old Rip Van Winkle ; He slept for fully twenty years, That ' s the truth, we will allow ; Though he may have slept there all that time, You'll find no "sleepers" now. NORTH CAROLINA. It was at old Fort Sumter They fought a fight-none finerSo let us drink a right good health To good old North Carolina. NORTH DAKOTA. It may be right to have a place Where prohibition lingers ; But I'll take my home in sume glad s pot Where I can plant '"four fin g ers. " OHIO. With O hi<>- t h a t famous state­ We really couldn't dispe n s e, For if she left us, where would we go To get our presi d e n t s 1