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THE AFTERMATH OF REVELRY 207
Orange ^uiniiie
is an excellent tonic.
To a pint bottle of orange wine add ten grains
of sulphate of quinine, cork well, and let it stand
for a few days. Take a wine-glassful at a- time,
either with or without a dash of soda-water.
Brandy-and-Soda^
already alluded to in an earlier chapter, will get
no recommendation from me, as a restorative.
If quite certain of your soda-water, and of your
brandy, a tumblerful on occasion will do no
harm ; but do not be in too great a hurry to
order this, after meeting an old friend, in a
strange district. Like Wotsisname's pills, the
more brandy-and-sodas you take, the more you
will want; and the tendency of soda-water is
distinctly lowering. As for bad soda-water—
well, it will kill almost as rapidly as will bad
brandy.
A favourite restorative of the working man,
who has been propounding abstruse political
problems in the tap-room all night, is a red-
herring, eaten raw, with the aid of his clasp-
knife. This he will wash down with some sort
of ale, or with a mixture of gin-and-peppermint,
according to the state of his feelings. That old,
heroic soberer the Pump, is not much used for
that purpose, nowadays.
Scorcher
is a rarely-employed pick-me-up. It consists of