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"Yes, you did. And I have thought it wrong to get them
beer and have hated to do it. But I must mind Aunt Dora, and
uncle and Harry will have something to drink."
"See here, Daisy; Aunt Dora has gone over the field to Mrs.
Webbs. Do you run back to the house and nearly fill a pail with
cold water. Then put in it some molasses, half a cup of vinegar
and a spoonful of ground ginger. Take in a paper
a
little bak–
ing-soda. Then when you get to the field put the soda in the pail
and stir it well, and give uncle and Harry a good drink while it
foams, and see what they think of it."
Half an hour later Daisy came back by the garden.
"What did they say'?" asked Uncle Melton.
"They said it was prime! Uncle said he'd lay out no more
money for a keg of beer, if I could get him up drinks
lik~
that.
Harry said his Sunday school teacher had been at him to give
up beer, and he'd been half a mind to, and now he would if I'd
make him something as cool and comfortable as that every
day."
"Bravo! Now see what Aunt Dora says."
Aunt Dora said "she'd rather by half have her men folks
drink molasses and ginger, than be guzzling beer and scaring
her half to death for fear they'd !urn out topers."
J.
McNair Wrz"ght, in "Pebbles and, Pearls,"
1891.
. The Gin J)aisy
One part Gin
The juice of half a Lemon
Three dashes of Orange bitters
Three dashes of Curacao
Four dashes of sugar syrup
Serve in a medium sized glass half full of finely
cracked ice.
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