The Hawaiian gazette., 1902-08-05
LORD hOpETOUN'S
NARRATIVE
he TsIh How Yankee Students
Bscsm. Drunk on
Mlk.

One always expects noted men when
tavsiins at sea 60 have o. bic stock
a stories on hand bot ns Tar ns could
boz us.eriained Lord H1ps.,un told but
one story IN the trip from sydney Co
Honolulu.
The Hon. ". A. Long. who was "a
passenger aboard the Mlowera says
that His Lordship told the story In a
modest way and then ordered drink all
around The Earls story was as fol-
loYs.
Gentlemen. when / was yet quite a
green young Scotchman-many years
agO-I made a trip to London and then
on to Paris with a friend. We journey
| ed to Newhaven by the London and
Southwestern Railway and then got on
a small packet to make the trip across
the channel to the quaint old seaside
, town OF Dieppe. 1t was a rough
nights passage across the channel so
We did not make any effort to sleep.
| We became interested in two young
Americans who were talking loud
| enough to permit everyone TO hear
They said that they had three hundred
dollars-about sixty sovereisns. gentle
men, in our money-each with which to
'do'-'do is a Yankee expression ] be-
lieve-Paris. / conversed with them and
they told me very interesting stories
about themselves one said his father
was a doctor; the other said his COVER
nor was "A jolly good fellow although
he was a bullpuncher.' Both were col
lege students.
ION our arrival at Dieppe we took the
young fellows on to Paris and they
told us they had never tasted absinthe.
They wished to know how to drink
it and whether it would make them
very-well. ah, gentlemen-very drunk!
We told them that it would and that
it would be better If we would ac-
company them to their apartments and
have some absinthc brought in. They
would then become acquainted with
the proper way of drinking it and con-
seauently would not make Doors of
themselves when drinking it in the
cafes, gentlemen. Well. | hope you
gentlemen will not think that my sub
sequent actions were disgraceful, al
though the laws of hospitality decreed
that we should have done otherwise,
but gentlemen at my age then ! was
fond OF good joke-and this promised
to be most excellent one.
Speaking in the French tongue !
| told our attendant to bring us some
milk and at the same time informed
the youngsters that ! had sent for alb
sinthe. We'll the milk was brought and
after a little lemon juice had been
placed in il we exhibited it to the boys
| We placed a small block Of ice in each
OF four tumblers and poured the milk
slowly into each. Then with a Here's
luck, Yanks' we drank. The boys de-
clared it a very pleasant drink and
had many small bowls OF milk in the
course Of an hour. Then they COM
about on the floor of our apartment.
/ In a half hour more both were as
drunk as Dutch fiddlcrs might be on
/ the occasion of a Boer victory. We put
/ them into bed and kept them there
and | can assure you, gentlemen, that
there were wildly intoxicated. They
only had milk to drink but they
thought it absinthe and their magma
ton lid the rest"
| Il am given cause for mu . "r"t.
gentlemen" continued the
| cannot serve you with mi. go
sinthe' but if you will allow me /
would like you all to assist me in drink
! ing the health of the commander of
| the Miowera."
And this was Lord Hopetoun's only
| story,