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In all ages of the world, and in all countries, men have
indulged in "Social Drinks." They have always possessed
themselves of some popular beverage, apart from water.
Wliether it is judicious that mankind should continue to
indulge in such things, or whether it would be wiser to
abstain from all enjoyments of that charader, it is not
my province to decide. We leave that question to the
moral philosopher. We do not propose to persuade any
man to drink, for instance, a punch, or a julep, or a cock
tail, who has never happened to make the acquaintance
of those refreshing articles under circumstances calcu
lated to induce more "intimate relations"—but we do
propose to help those whose "intimate relations" in ques
tion render them somewhat fastidious in the daintiest
fashion thereunto pertaining. We want this book to be
a blessing to mankind, and offer instrudiort in the con-
codion of cobblers, juleps, cocktails, etc., in the choicest
manner; and, for the perfedion of this education, we
have gathered among others the recipes of JerryThomas,
the Jupiter Olympus of the bar, the presiding deity at