1935 So Red the Nose or Breath in the Afternoon

Donald Culross Peattie^s

SINGING IN THE WIEDEItNESS Cocktail

1 DOLLOP OF COMB HONEY, Straîncd and Beaten Smooth in Enough whisky to Make You Sing. Fill up the rest of a Tall Glass with cream. Beat it ail to a froth again and clink the glasses to the old toast— Here's tae us! Wha's like us? Dom fewl Audubon's biographer regards the average cocktail as a degenerate drink altogether. He writes, "In the parts of America from which my ancestors came any youngster caught tippling Gin would have been sent to the other side of the room to sit with the girls. "What made them sing in the wilderness was not Gin or imported bitters but Whisky ont of a jug. In a land flowing with milk and honey some of the pioneers re- membered 'Brose' (the cocktail given above), that doughty drink with which the Scotch clans armed themselves before carving the pattern of their tartans on Proud Edward's host." Naturalists, well embrosed, have been known to see hummingbirds darting amid January snows, otvls flying about at high noon, and the shy tvhip- poorwill singing among the skyscrapers of the city.