1 96 BORROWED INDIAN WORDS 



" toddy" (as in the case of " cot" above-mentioned), 

 and "toddy punch" meant the same thing as 

 " arrack punch." Returning Anglo-Indians brought 

 the receipt for making this brew to England, and 

 lovers of Vanity Fair will remember how the whole 

 course of that story was changed by the bowl of 

 " rack punch " which Joseph Sedley ordered at Vaux- 

 hall, where " everybody had rack punch." How 

 soon both the brew and its Indian name took firm 

 root and spread among us appears from the fact 

 that, at the Holy Fair described by Burns in the 

 century before last, the lads and lasses sit round a 

 table and " steer about the toddy." 



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