COOL BEVERAGE. 45? 



If they are liable to this, it will be an act of kindness 

 to relieve them, from all pettifogging informers ; and, 

 if not, it will serve them right to put an end to the 

 hoax. Let us therefore placard the recipe ; so that a 

 gentleman may either call for it as a prescription, or 

 lay in his own cargo at Apothecaries' Hall. 



ROCHELLE SALTS, 2 DRAMS. 

 CARBONATE OF SODA, 2 SCRUPLES. 

 TARTARIC ACID, 2 SCRUPLES. 



The two first may be kept together : the other must 

 be detached, for effervescence, till you are quite ready 

 to begin stirring and drinking. 



If this is not thought sufficiently pleasant, you may 

 add lemon and sugar: or if required merely to quench 

 the thirst, you should omit the Rochelle salts ; and 

 then you have, at one good swig*, for about three- 

 pence, three eigh teen-penny " saline draughts ! " 



Our sportsman will then, having taken care to pro- 

 vide 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 va- 

 porous atmosphere, is the best preventive from catching 

 the ague wh en fen- shooting ; and, perhaps, one of the 

 greatest preservatives from cold and illness, of any thing 

 in existence. Under particular circumstances, there- 

 fore, smoking becomes not only justifiable, but some- 

 times necessary. It is, however, the last thing that I 

 mean to recommend making a constant practice of, 

 when not required; as most people, it is presumed, 



* " A low expression" but one that will surely be thought good 

 enough for prescriptions, when swallowed, by wholesale, at a low 

 price. 



