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things well — his daughter, his cellar, and

old Lightening, his great fighting bird,

the acknowledged champion from New

York to Albany.

Indeed 'twere hard to

tell which loved he the most, though his

daughter was truly the idol of his heart.

/DISTRESS PEGGY'S lovers were

many, and many were the strong potions

quaffed, even when the driest throats were

long since drowned in good liquor, because

of her bewitching beauty, which gave added

flavour and bouquet to the concoctions for

which the bar was famous. But so well

did she justify her father's confidence and

her own good name that, though the gay

bucks from town quarrelled and even

fought for her favour, the most fortunate

could not boast of the lightest thing to her

discredit. On especial occasions she was

wont to make for her father, and certain

good friends of hers and old Lightening's, a

most delicious beverage, the composition of

which was secret, but which was so popu

lar that it lacked naught but appropriate

naming to give it more than local fame.