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"It might do for a nigger, suckin' sugar candy and drinkin' mint-julep; but it won't do for a free and enlightened citizen like me. A country house oh goody gracious! the Lord presarve me from it, I say. If ever any soul ever catches me there agin, I'll give 'em leave to tell me of it, that's all. Oh go, Squire, by all means; you will find it monstrous pleasant, I know you will.
One of the guests, a fellow of New College, told me that some fifty years ago an American, being entertained there showed the college dons how to make mint-julep, or something of the sort, and then sent them a large silver cup with the condition that it should be filled with this American drink every year on the anniversary of the donor's visit, and that this is regularly done.
It was left to our imagination to conjecture how the big chambers of the old house, with their gaping fireplaces, might have looked when furnished and filled with gay company, and we got what satisfaction we could out of a bygone bustle and mint-julep hilarity.
"Said so. I reckon, stranger, we can get up a mint-julep on board this here boat equal to either Saint Charles or Verandah, if not a leetle superior to either." "A superb drink!" "We can mix a sherry-cobbler too, that ain't hard to take." "I have no doubt of it, but I'm not fond of sherry. I prefer this." "You're right. So do I. The pine-apple's a new idea, but an improvement, I think."
If they pay you a visit, you are quite sure they are in an agony to see Frank; and you hold the little squirming fellow in your arms, half conscience-smitten for provoking them to such envy as they must be suffering. You make a settlement upon the boy with a chuckle, as if you were treating yourself to a mint-julep, instead of conveying away a few thousands of seven per cents.
"Miss 'Lethe, a julep a mint-julep before I perish." With a graceful sweep she took it from them and revealed three juleps in their glory of green-crowns. "Look, Colonel!" "Three! Great heavens!" the Colonel cried, delighted. He took one and disposed of it in haste. "I mixed them myself," Miss 'Lethe said. The Colonel drank another, but less rapidly.
READER! have you ever witnessed how cleverly one of our mob-politicians can, through the all-soothing medium of a mint-julep, transpose himself from a mass of passion and bad English into a child of perfect equanimity? If not, perhaps you have witnessed in our halls of Congress the sudden transition through which some of our Carolina members pass from a state of stupidity to a state of pugnacity?
Our magistrate was not long in availing himself of the proximity of the United States; for the next day saw him an inhabitant of the good city of Rochester, in the State of New York, where, I make no doubt, over gin-cocktail, or mint-julep, he entertains the free and enlightened citizens with an account of his adroit manner of "sloping" the British Government.
"Happiness away from old Kentucky, surrounded by a lot of numb-skulls who couldn't mix a fancy drink to save their lives, who know nothing of that prismatic, rainbow-hued fountain of youth, a mint-julep? Ah!" "But, Colonel," said the girl, "the masterpieces of art!" "Give me," said he, "the masterpieces of Mother Nature the bright-eyed, rose-cheeked, cherry-lipped girls of old Kentucky!"
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