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Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II.

CHAPTER XVI
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The Tavern furnishes wines, &c.; the Pot-house, porter, ale, and liquors suitable to the high or low.

The sturdy Porter, sweating beneath his load, may here refresh himself with heavy wet;{l} the Dustman, or the Chimney-sweep, may sluice 1 Heavy wet-A well-known appellation for beer, porter, or ale.
~256~~Am ivory{1} with the Elixir of Life, now fashionably termed Daffy's." "Daffy's," said Tallyho-"that is somewhat new to me, I don't recollect hearing it before ?" "Daffy's Elixir," replied Dashall, "was a celebrated quack medicine, formerly sold by a celebrated Doctor of that name, and recommended by him as a cure for all diseases incident to the human frame.

This Gin, Old Tom, and Blue Ruin, are equally recommended in the present day; in consequence of which, some of the learned gentlemen of the sporting' world have given it the title of Daffy's, though this excellent beverage is known by many other names.
"For instance, the Lady of refined sentiments and delicate nerves, feels the necessity of a little cordial refreshment, to brighten the one and enliven the other, and therefore takes it on the sly, under the polite appellation of white wine.

The knowing Kids and dashing Swells are for a drap of blue ruin, to keep all things in good twig.

The Laundress, who disdains to be termed a dry washer,--dearly loves a dollop {2} of Old Tom, because, while she is up to her elbows in suds, and surrounded with steam, she thinks a drap of the old gemman (having no pretensions to a young one) would comfort and strengthen her inside, and consequently swallows the inspiring dram.


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