456 COOL BEVERAGE. 



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



One sour, 



Two sweet j 

 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 me- 

 tamorphose a man into what he would not like to be 

 called, by making him drunk, this beverage, if intro- 

 duced by way of a sequel to wine, is one of the most 

 certain to answer their purpose : because it is so cool- 

 ing, and grateful to the thirst, that the more he drinks 

 the more he requires of it, instead of beginning 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 prefer that prepared by the late Mr. Farley, now Mr. Tabor, 

 (Charles Street, St. James's Square), called " effervescent lemonade" 

 which is quite free from the taste of physic. My name, when I first 

 spoke of this beverage, was not even known at this laboratory ; and 

 therefore it can, of course, be merely to serve my readers that I 

 mention it. 



While on the subject of cool beverage, let us, en 

 passant, just annihilate the Sedlitz powder conspiracy. 

 There is no gentle alterative so pleasant a beverage as 

 a Sedlitz powder. But if you ask for this medicine, 

 otherwise than in decorated 4*s. 6d. boxes, many of the 

 chemists decline serving it, under plea of a 50/. penalty. 



