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professing to give the focus for good punch, it be- 

 comes a necessary caution against error, to except 

 that which is composed with all the dainties of an 

 alderman ; who, by the way, is welcome to my share 

 of them ; as well as to that of the gout after them. 

 Here we have spoken of hot punch. Now for cold; 

 which, being merely intended as a cool beverage, 

 requires to be much weaker. 



For this, I cannot do better than copy a receipt 

 that was given me, some years ago, when quartered 

 at Glasgow, where cold punch was universally drank ; 

 and where its excellence was only to be equalled by 

 the hospitality of the inhabitants. It is 



" A wine glass nearly full of best refined lump sugar pounded. 

 Twelve ditto of cold spring water. 

 A lime, and half a lemon Qor, if no lime, a whole lemon, 



which might yield about half a wine glass full of juice]. 

 Two M'ine glasses brimful] of old Jamaica rum. 

 Let the sugar be well melted, and the lemons thoroughly amal- 

 gamated with it, and the water, before you add the spirit." 



Or, to be much more brief, I will say, for cold punch, 



One sour, 



Two sweet ; 

 Four strong, 



Twenty weak ; 



As here we have only to repeat the old rhyme, and 

 change the eight into a twenty. If I could make it 

 shorter, and more simple, I would. 



For those worthies, who think it a good joke to 

 metamorphose a man into what he would not like to 



