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FANCY DRINKS
AND
POPULAR BEVERAGES.
To those who do not find the following useful in its
details for their own use, I express my congratula–
tions and esteem as a business associate. To those
who do find it a guide I wish to express my assur–
ance that they will find this work a.n absolutely and
indispensably correct one to work by, provided they
understand and practice it.
You may travel all over the country, and you will
find my practice a good one.
In
discharging your
duties you will find many little hints you will not be
able to practice for not having the facilities to do so,
but I may say I have at least shown you how it ought
to be made and executed.
It
must be left to your own
judgment to follow the directions given herein the best
way you know of, and leave out what ought to be left
out, because your position does not offer you the oppor–
tunity. I have mentioned in this work everything that
is necessary for a theoretical experience. It should be
borne in mind: Not everybody can advance so as to be–
come an artist in tending bar, but we all should learn,
and try to improve by all means that are offered. I am
far from believing it possible to become a practical man
by simply studying this book, but while doing so, you
will get an essential and true idea of how to become a
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