Into a small bar-glass pour 1 wine glass of Santa Cruz rum and 1 tablespoonful of molasses; cool with shaved ice, or fill up with boiling water, according to season. Grate nutmeg on top. This is ordinary rum and water.

The following appeared in Moonshine, and may fitly conclude our chapter on American drinks, for which the verdant English youth has paid to the cunning dispenser so many nimble ninepences:

"Thou art thirsty, Amaryllis; say to what dost thou incline? Wilt thou toy with amber bubbles at the Fons Burtonis brink ? Shall I crown the crystal goblet with the flashing Rhenish wine ? Or it may be thou would'st wish for an American long drink ? Shall I brew a Flash of Lightning or a Bourbon Whiskey-skin ? Or a Saratoga Brace-up ? Sweetest, you have but to say. Nay, perhaps a Bottle Cocktail would your kind approval win ? Or a Santa Cruz Rum Daisy will be something in your way? I can recommend a Morning-glory Cocktail to your taste, And a Corker or a Nerver there are few who will despise;

Tom and Jerry offers pleasures it were folly rank to waste;

In a Nectar for the dog-days sweet Elysian rapture lies. Be not silent, Amaryllis, name your poison, whatsoe'er You've a mind for, be it Thunder, Locomotive, or Egg Nogg. I have all ingredients handy, and I reckon I'm all there When the question's on the tapis as to what shall be the grog."

An American Bar-Tender