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AMERICAN
DRINKS.
Cobblers
—
Cocktails
—
Flips,
etc.
—
Punch
—
Varieties
—
A
Bar-Tende/
—
Anstey's
Pleader's
Guide
—
A
Yard
of
Flannel
—
Bottled
Velvet
—
Rumfustian,
etc.
I
THK
gi'eat
authority,
probably
the
greatest
authority,
on
this
interesting
subject
is
a
gentleman
who,
with
the
true
modesty
of
genius,
allows
himself
to
be
known
only
by
the
pseudonym
of
Jerry
Thomas,
Formerly
a
bar-tender
at
the
Metro-
politan
Hotels
New
York,
and
the
Planters
House,
St.
Louis,
he
is
said
to
have
travelled
over
Europe
and
America
in
''
search
of
all
that
is
recondite
in
this
branch
of
the
spirit
art."
His
very
name,
says
one
of
his
admirers,
is
synonymous
in
the
lexicon
of
mixed
drinks
with
all
that
is
rare
and
original.
Among;
the
chief
American
drinks
are,
being
alpha-
betically
arranged,
cobblers
^
cocktails,
cups,
flips,
juleps
mullsi
nectars,
neguses,
noggs,
punches
—
of
which
there
are
at
least
three
score
sangarees,
shrubs,
slings,
smashes,
and
toddies
t"-
1
The
dictionary
explanations
of
these
terms
are
commonly
un-
satisfactory.
The
experience
of
th^
bar-tender
is
more
than
the
katrhing
of
the
lexicographer.
Cobbler,
indeed,
is
well
explained
as
figmpounded
of
wine,
sugar,
lemon^
and
sucked
up
through
a