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CHAPTER XIV
THE LONG AND THE SHORT OF IT
The Long Drink—Cremome Gardens—Hatfield—Assorted cock
tails—Brandy-and-Soda—Otherwise Stone Fence Bull s
milk—A burglar's brew—More cocktails—A "swizzle
L'Amour Pousaee—A corpse reviver—A golden slipper A
heap of comfort.
Our grandfathers knew not the Long Drink ;
the chief reason for this fact being that aerated
water, and consequently large tumblers, had not
been invented. And soda-water—one of the most
ineffectual restoratives I know—was originally
employed, under its pet name "sober water," as
a pick-me-up. The Long Drink came in, I
fancy, with Cremorne. At primaeval Vauxhall
men still refreshed themselves with glasses of
alleged sherry, and with rummers of brandy-and-
water—a flat, stale, and unprofitable potion, which
nobody who is in complete possession of his
faculties thinks of imbibing nowadays.
Let us now run over a few recipes which
require large tumblers to hold the drinks. And
we will commence with " cobblers," those seduc
tive warm-weather importations from the United
States.