I reminded him that there was concentrated lemonade in the hamper, and a gallon-jar of water in the nose of the boat, and that the two only wanted mixing to make a cool and refreshing beverage.

Then he flew off about lemonade, and “suchlike Sunday-school slops,” as he termed them, ginger-beer, raspberry syrup, etc. , etc. He said they all produced dyspepsia, and ruined body and soul alike, and were the cause of half the crime in England.