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uency for at least a century. Throughout the universe it
now is popular, and that loud and thankful labial acknowl–
edgment of its superiorities at the conclusion of the draft
is the smack that was heard around the world.
There are many schools of thought on this important
subject, as the,re are many methods of adorning the master–
piece. So great has been the argument on this subject that
often the controversy could only be solved by recourse to
pistols at dawn. One group holds that the bruised mint
should •be left in the potion. But my grandfather always
insisted that a man who would let the crushed leaves and
the mangled stemlets steep in the finished decoction would
put scorpions in a baby's bed. And as for the dash of nutmeg
which some barbarians
insf~t
on sifting across the top of
the glass - well, down our way we've always had a theory
that the Civil War was not brought on by Secession or Slav–
ery or the State's Rights issue. These matters contributed to
the
quarr~l,
but there y.ras a deeper reason.
It
was brought
on by some Yankee coming down South and putting nut–
meg in a julep. So our folks just up and left the Union .flat.
Some expert practitioners insist on Rye as the basic motif.
Practically all Marylanders, many Virginians and Carolin–
ians, New Yorkers and New Englanders and a few Ten–
nesseeans hold this doctrine as sanctified. The majority of
Kentuckians, the folk of Chicago, the middle and far west,
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