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FIN DE SIECLE*Orange Bitters
FLOATER
One dash Amer Picon Bitters
One-third Italian Vermuth
Two-thirds Plymouth Gin
Stir
There is equal authority for a contention that this was
called after a racehorse owned by the late James R. Keene,
or after an individual numerically important, and who was
transported into various precincts at different hours of
Election Day and thereby enabled to vote early and often,
as the saying was; or, the Floater may have changed his
residence from a strong precinct of his political faith to one
that was weaker, in order to make his vote count where it
was needed. James R. Keene had a horse that was named
Voter, and another that was called Ballot Box, and it may
be that persons familiar with the race-track will dig up one
that was called Floater. Anyhow, if there is such a horse it
was named after the creature whose vote on Election Day
had a plurally peripatetic quality.
FLORIDA
Fill glass with shaved Ice
Three-fourths Gilka Kiimmel
One-fourth Brandy
One-halfltalian Vermuth
One-half Orange Juice
Shake
FOURTH DEGREE
Origin somewhat mixed, but traceable to patrons of the
Bar who belonged to some secret society or other. Solon
thinks it was a compliment to a Mason; maybe it was an
Odd Fellow. However, let others fight it out.
One-third Italian Vermuth
Two-thirds Plymouth Gin
Dash of Absinthe
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