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"O, Loudon!" he cried; "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.


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