This liquor is taken just before supper, or immediately after.

The taste is very nauseous, disagreeable to the last degree.

One would suppose he was drinking thick dish-water of a greenish-yellow color.

But its effects are particularly pleasant.

An irresistible sleep seizes you, and lasts twelve, twenty-four hours, or even more, according to the dose, and the temperament of the individual.
Delicious dreams charm this long torpor.
Often when the dose is too great or too small, sleep does not follow; but in its place an intoxication, accompanied by fantastic ideas, and a strong desire to skip about, although one can not for a moment balance himself on his legs.