438 COOL BEVERAGE. 



be called, by making him drunk, this beverage, if 

 introduced by way of a sequel to wine, is one of the 

 most certain to answer their purpose : because it is 

 so cooling, and grateful to the thirst, that the more 

 he drinks the more he requires of it, instead of be- 

 ginning to find it unpleasant, like wine, hot punch, 

 or other more potent liquors. I name this, not as a 

 lesson to the wag, but as a caution to the unwary. 



With materials for making other cool portable beverage (merely 

 to quench the thirst) almost every chemist can supply you. But, 

 provided a packet, the size of a pint bottle, is not objected to, 

 I should have no hesitation in preferring that prepared by Mr. 

 Farley, Charles Street, St. James's Square ; as what he calls his 

 " effervescent lemonade" is quite free from the taste of physic. 

 My name, when I first spoke of this beverage, was not even 

 known at his laboratory; and therefore it can, of course, be 

 merely to serve my readers that I mention it. 



Our sportsman will then, having taken care to 

 provide himself with a little good tobacco, or a few 

 cigars, have recourse to smoking; which, next to the 

 sovereign remedy of taking a little purl, before you 

 inhale a vaporous atmosphere, is the best preventive 

 from catching the ague when ^w-shooting ; and, 

 perhaps, one of the greatest preservatives from cold 

 and illness, of any thing in existence. Under parti- 

 cular circumstances, therefore, smoking becomes not 

 only justifiable, but sometimes necessary. It is, how- 

 ever, the last thing that I mean to recommend making 

 a constant practice of, when not required; as most 

 people, it is presumed, would consider it an idle 

 habit to become every day absorbed in what might 



