1933 The Cocktail Book Repeal Edition (New Revised Edition)

things well — his daughter, his cellar, and old Lightening, his great fighting bird, the acknowledged champion from New York to Albany. Indeed 'twere hard to tell which loved he the most, though his daughter was truly the idol of his heart. /DISTRESS PEGGY'S lovers were many, and many were the strong potions quaffed, even when the driest throats were long since drowned in good liquor, because of her bewitching beauty, which gave added flavour and bouquet to the concoctions for which the bar was famous. But so well did she justify her father's confidence and her own good name that, though the gay bucks from town quarrelled and even fought for her favour, the most fortunate could not boast of the lightest thing to her discredit. On especial occasions she was wont to make for her father, and certain good friends of hers and old Lightening's,a most delicious beverage, the composition of which was secret, but which was so popu lar that it lacked naught but appropriate naming to give it more than local fame.