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Patea Mail, 18 April 1882, Page 3

ABOUT THE PROPER PROOF. A Sydney paper treats its readers to .this on. whisky :- A : Queensland shanty-keeper lately found trouble to brew his whisky hot enough to suit his customers, who made repeated enquiries for something that would “ bite all the way down.” As a last resource, and to save his reputation, the proprietor mixed up a case of painkiller; a keg of fusel oil, four bottles of emu, oil, and a tub of hair restorer, and then emptied the lot into a barrel of “ real old Bourbon,” made in Ipswich. ( This he called the “ Shepherd’s ; I)elight,” and its popularity rose as high as a lawyer’s costs on a libel action. The first man who tried it fairly screamed with delight; and actually went home and : hugged his mother-in-law ; the next one took two drinks, and then broke his neck; trying to turn a double somersault Over a passing wool dray ; and the third, who was a travelling hawker, after drinking one quart, actually stole his own pack, and planted it ,up a hollow log. ; That shanty man is now on the road to fortune, and perhaps a seat in the Upper House.”