SCOTCH WHISKY.

Western Star, Issue 859, 12 July 1884, Page 1 (Supplement)

SCOTCH WHISKY.

The following interesting description of Sandy enjoying himself we extract from an article in the Glasgow Weekly Herald 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 whiskilication”

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 impression. The man becomes kindly, charitable, and philanthrophio on quite an imperial scale, and he begins to propound remedies for the peculiar evils that afflict society. A third dram gives him the gift of vision. He 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 Providence for the decidedly high measure of ability exhibited in the works of Nature; and if his oronie opposite, who has, of course, less illumiua tion 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 visibly increase ; his eyes glow with kingly fire; he seems to wield the sword of the Liberator ; he stands up, with the help of some projection; he recites “ Soots wha has 1” at the full pitch of his voice ; and ends, like Borneo, by taking the measure of an unmade grave on the field of the evening’s renown.