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Updated: July 1, 2025
This growing antipathy had been hastened and solidified by another tragedy quite as widely discussed as the Cocheran and May duel more so, in fact, since this particular victim of too many toddies had been the heir of one of the oldest residents about Kennedy Square a brilliant young surgeon, self-exiled because of his habits, who had been thrown from his horse on the Indian frontier an Iowa town, really shattering his leg and making its amputation necessary.
Mainly they took their'n straight or in toddies; in those parts, twenty years ago, the high-ball was looked upon with suspicion as a foreign error which had been imported by misguided individuals up North who didn't know any better than to drown good liquor in charged water.
With brown sugar, taken from the mess-chests, and hot water begged from the galley-cooks, the men made all manner of punches, toddies, and cocktails, letting fall therein a small drop of tar, like a bit of brown toast, by way of imparting a flavour.
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