Scotch Whisky

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 15, 15 July 1884, Page 3

Scotch Whisky

The following interesting description of Sandy enjoying himself we extract from an article in the Glasgow Weekly Heral.l in which the superiority of whisky over beep ib argued on the ground of its superior effects. Here U our contemporary's deseriplion of the Scotchman " in a perfect state of whiskification" : — One- dram of good whisky sends through his veins a glow like a breath of delicious air from Araby the Blent: a JUnrch eleam comes into his eye, an April tint upon his ehrek, and to the tip of his tongue a sort of May melodiousness. You would think from bis face that he had seeu ail angel. A second dram deepens the impression. The man be comet kindly, charitable, and philanthropic on quite an imperial scale, and he begins to propound remedi « for the peculiar erils that afflict society. A third dram t»ives him the gift of vision. Ho can look into the seeds of time, and tell which will grow and which will not. Especially, he is prepared to expound the mysteries of religion, and he enforces his propositions with a slap upon the table that makes the glasses dance. He is now inclined to be complimentary to Proridence for the decided 1/ high measure of ability- exhibited in the works of Nature; and if his cronie opposite, who has, of course less illumination than him. self should yenture to hint & doubt, he lathes out against all sceptics, for whom, as he easily shows, there is only one place and that by no means a cool one. With •.fourth dram he becomes electrically patroitic. His inches visibly increase ; hi» eyes glow with kindly fire ; he seems to weild the sword of the Liberator ; he stands up, with the help of some prolection ; he recites ° Scots wha hae !" at the full pitch of his voice ; and ends, Borneo, by taking the measure of an unmade grave on the field of the evening's renown.