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Cambridgeshire, and threw, into it
Four hoesheads of brandy; eight hogs.
heads of water; twenty-five thousand
lemons twenty gallons of lime juice
thirteen hundred weight of sugar; five
pounds of grated nutmeg; three hun.
dred toasted biscuits; and one pipe OF
dry mountain Malaga wine. There's a
RECEIPT for a new edition of Mrs. Run
dell OF Miss Acton Ia this lake of Ii.
quor foated small boat, manned with
a steady boafs crew. These filled for
all comers, and more than six thousand
persons partpok of the Admirars mix
ture. The cistern, OF bowl, was empty
long before morning. :-5.. -.a ..=.....u
| believe it would be difficult to show
that the word punch was in use in Eng
land anterior 10 The restoration, or toddy
in existence, by such name, anterior
TO the Hanover succession. Punch the
puppet came over with Charles H., and
the word. in its sense of thick and short,
was soon coined for the nonce, Mr..
Pepys recording under the year 1869,
how nightly he was pleased to hear
some poor people call " their fat child
Punch, that word being become word
of common use for all that is thick and
short" 1t soon got into our dictionaries
Coles, the schoolmaster, defining
punch" in 1855, as "a mixture of
brandy, water, lemons, and ill mixtures,
it, in all probability, came into England
with our sailors-Fryer in his travels TO
the East Indies in 1912, informing his
readers that Sat Nerule (near Goal is
made the best arack, or nepa die Goa,
with which the English on this coast
make that enervating liquor called
punch (which is Indostan for five,) from
five ingredients, as the physicians name
this composition Diapente, or from four
things Diatesseron." 1t was the Eng
lish, we see, who made and drank this
mixture of five things on the coast of
Goa, and our sea captains and their
men were not long in acquiring and
bringing to England taste. for what
Fryer considered as a very enervating
liqnor.
Of the early use Of punch in the
English navy in the reign Of Charles
IT,, there are some striking illustrations
in the Diary of Henry Teonge, an :" old
cavalier " turned ships chaplain. The
first voyage of this clerical worthy was
on board the frigate "Assistance,"1
fifty-six guns. then, Isl of June, 1916.
lying in the Long Reach, at Blackwell,
bound for Tripoli. On joining his ship,
he, drank, be tells Us, before going TO
bed, part of three bowls of punch a
Liquor" he adds, Every strange to me-"
On the Sd Of June they hoisted sail,
and made for the More. Hither,a he
writes, many of our ,seamen's wives
follow their husbands, and several other
young women accompany their sweet
hearts, and sing 'Loath 10 Depart 10
punch and brandy" The wives still
fingered about the vessel till they
reached the Downs, when. as he re-
cords, i" we drink health to all our
friends behind US in a good bowl of
punch" Nor when in the Bay of Bis
cay did they forget the. women over
heir bowls. Here,n it is Saturday.
!: porpoises come tumbling in great
nnllitudes. We eud the day and week
With drinking TO our wives in punch
oowls.n A milder liquor, perhaps,
hough we suspect punch after all, was
lsed by the chaplain and the crew Of
he stout ship Assistance when "to-
wards evening, we being bound to
,ruise westward, drink to our friends in
| lemonade But punch, we imagine,
II good racckee,o as he calls and
pells it, was once more resorted to
when, Sd of October, 1915, he had oc-
.asion 10 record that "This day Than
ellsd my new cassock, but,n. there is
IN admission) had no time for prayersw
This same fipp and punch are
are dcinks,n exclaims scowrer in one
4 Shadwell's amusing comedies of |
manners; and so Teonge found them,
hough their use would not appear TO
ave injured his constitution, for he |
lied on shore, parson of Spernall in |
Varwickshire, in a green old age, re-
Iecting frequently no doubt on the good
entertainment he received while chap
ain Of His MaJesty's frigate z Assist
nee" Two of these deserve a place
d paper on punch.r At Taugier, the
haplaln and bis friend the doctor of
be " Assistance are desirous to see
he fort. A Capt. Charles Daniel graft
es their Pepysian curiosity, and they
7ere thus nobly entertained, Sin
ayre room, when first of all he, gave
S crust of excellent bread and two
ottIes of .claret, then took US into his
ardens, which lie clearly round about
1e fort. and shadowed with an arbor of
ines Of, all sorts, and of bis own plant
,g. Here we drank several bottles of
inc. After this he took Us into his Gel
IF, where he feasted rs with roast beef,
old, Westfalia polony pudding, par
lezant; gave US cucumbers, musk
lelons, salIetts, and sieve of Spanish
Mons as thick as my thigh; slowed
$ with good wine, and then, loath 10
Il US go, he sent one Of his corporals
ith us to see us safe to our pinnace.-
uch a hearty entertainment" says the
Ierry making chaplain, !" | never saw
sfore from mere stranger; nor new
: shall AGAIN till I return to the prince. Il