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uency for at least a century. Throughout the universe it now is popular, and that loud and thankful labial acknowl– edgment of its superiorities at the conclusion of the draft is the smack that was heard around the world. There are many schools of thought on this important subject, as the,re are many methods of adorning the master– piece. So great has been the argument on this subject that often the controversy could only be solved by recourse to pistols at dawn. One group holds that the bruised mint should •be left in the potion. But my grandfather always insisted that a man who would let the crushed leaves and the mangled stemlets steep in the finished decoction would put scorpions in a baby's bed. And as for the dash of nutmeg which some barbarians insf~t on sifting across the top of the glass - well, down our way we've always had a theory that the Civil War was not brought on by Secession or Slav– ery or the State's Rights issue. These matters contributed to the quarr~l, but there y.ras a deeper reason. It was brought on by some Yankee coming down South and putting nut– meg in a julep. So our folks just up and left the Union .flat. Some expert practitioners insist on Rye as the basic motif. Practically all Marylanders, many Virginians and Carolin– ians, New Yorkers and New Englanders and a few Ten– nesseeans hold this doctrine as sanctified. The majority of Kentuckians, the folk of Chicago, the middle and far west, 19