CHAPTER XX. 



POTEEN THE REAL MOUNTAIN DEW. 



THERE are very few people that go to Ireland that 

 do not fancy it is incumbent upon them to talk 

 about, and make their friends believe that their prin- 

 cipal, or at least ordinary, drink has been poteen, 

 and I verily think that they have in many cases 

 persuaded their own stomachs that this has been 

 the case. 



Whiskey and poteen parliament whiskey, as Paddy 

 styles it and the real mountain dew are widely dif- 

 ferent articles, and unless one has actually seen it 

 brewed, or can thoroughly depend upon where it 

 comes from, there is little certainty about it; the 

 taste, however, to a connoisseur, is not to be mis- 

 taken. There is very little to be tasted in these 

 days, simply because there is very little made. Illicit 



