SCOTCH WHISKY.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1198, 1 July 1884, Page 3

SCOTCH WHISKY.

The following interesting description of Sandy enjoying himself we extract from an article in a Scotch paper, in which the superiority of whisky over beer is argued on the ground of its superior effects. Here is our contemporary's description 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 Blest. A March gleam comes into his eye, an April tint upon his cheek, and to the tip of his tongue a sort of May melodiousness. You would think from his face that he had seen an angel. A second dram deepens the impress'on. Ihe man becomes kindly, charitable and philanthropic on quite an imperial scale, and he begins to propound remed.es for the peculiar evils which afflict society. A third dram gives him the gift of vision. He can look into the seeds of time, and tell wiiich 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 Providence for the decidedly high measure exhibited in the works of nature; and if his crony opposite, who has, of course, less illumination than himself, should venture to hint a doubt, he lashes out against all sceptics, for whom, as he easily shows, there is only one place, and that by no means a cool one. With a fourth dram he becomes electrically patriotic. His inches increase ; his eyes glow with kingly fire ; he aeems to wield a sword of the Liberator ; he stands up with the help of some projection ; he recites "'Scots wha hae !" at the top of his voice ; and ends, like Romeo, by taking the measure of an unmade grave • on the field of the evening's renown. I