"Man, how I've pined for you! And you haven't come an hour too soon.

You're known here and waited for; I've been booming you already; you're billed for a lecture to-morrow night: _Student Life in Paris, Grave and Gay_: twelve hundred places booked at the last stock! Tut, man, you're looking thin! Here, try a drop of this." And he produced a case bottle, staringly labelled PINKERTON'S THIRTEEN STAR GOLDEN STATE BRANDY, WARRANTED ENTIRE.
"God bless me!" said I, gasping and winking after my first plunge into this fiery fluid.

"And what does 'Warranted Entire' mean ?" "Why, Loudon! you ought to know that!" cried Pinkerton.

"It's real, copper-bottomed English; you see it on all the old-time wayside hostelries over there." "But if I'm not mistaken, it means something Warranted Entirely different," said I, "and applies to the public house, and not the beverages sold." "It's very possible," said Jim, quite unabashed.

"It's effective, anyway; and I can tell you, sir, it has boomed that spirit: it goes now by the gross of cases.