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Drinks Of Cor Forbears

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Day
25
Month
March
Year
1898
Copyright
Public Domain
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■ Among the popular drinks were mad dog and dragon 's milk. Theirmain coustitueut was ale of different degress of age and strength flavored with giuger and similar hot stuff. Mad dog was the stronger of the two. It was popular Binong gi -utlenieu of nuoient Pistol's stamp, who usuali .vanted sometbiug to grip their tliroats and put fire i:itc their eyes. Topers owe a great deal to this same mad dog. He it was that introduced the custom, popular in otber lands besides England, of easiug the effects of overindulgence by taking "a bair of the dog tbat bit yon." The fastidióos Briton of tbe olden' times was also mighty bard to please as to the qualities of wiüe. We find record of bis uicety in this regard as far baok as tbe twelfth century. An old manuscript in tbe British museum tells us whatwine was most prized: "It should be clear like tbe tears of a penitent, so that a man may see distiuctly to the bottoni of bis glass; its color should represent the greenness of a buffalo's horn ; wben drunk, it should descend impetuously like thunder; sweet tasted, like au almond; creeping like a squirrel; leaping like a roebuok; strong like tbe building of a Cistercian monastery ; glitteringlike a sparkof fire; subtle like tbe logic of the schools of Paris; delicate as fine silk, and colder tban crystal. " If the Englishman of that. day was able to procure this celestial liquor, he was more fortúnate thau recent topers and tipplers have been in the triune kingdoni. All modern travelers oan tes,'tify that no sucb wiue is to be bad now, either iu "dear old London" or elsewhere on the islaud. Furtbermore, the faucy beverages of the Elizabethan period have disappeared and left nota rack bebind, unless we dignify such wishy yashy stuff as claret punch, whicb holds tbe place of honor in most metropolitan 'barrooins, and port negus, whicb still lingers in tbe sickroom, by oalling tbem weak kneed descendant of the sttirdv, uucompromising beverages of

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Ann Arbor Argus
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