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whiskey and Bourbon whiskey in America. This here fiery
stuff called corn whiskey, whether white or red, is an unlaw–
ful offshoot from the Bourbon tribe and among Kentuckians,
at least, is regarded as but an illegitimate orphan of the
Royal Line, born out of wedlock in the shine of the moon,
left as a foundling on the doorstep of some convenient
bootlegger and ab<;mnding in fusel oil.
And it was not this corn whiskey or "moonshine," but
true and regal Bourbon (which averages sixty per cent
maize) that the
l~te
Will Lampton had reference to when
he penned his immortal verse with its forgivably libelous
tag-line:
Kentucky, oh, Kentucky,
How I love your classic shades,
Where flit the fairy figures
Of the star-eyed Southern maids;
Where the butterflies are joying
'Mid the blossoms newly born;
Where the corn is full of kernels,
And
The
Colonels
Fu+l
of
Corn!
Warning:-Illicitcorn liquor may easily be identified
by
these signs: It smells like gangrene starting in a mildewed
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