Lt. Col. P. Hawker, "Instructions to Young Sportsmen"

Instructions to Young Sportsmen in all that Relates to Guns and Shooting

by Lt. Col. P. Hawker
1826

From the chapter: "General Advice for the Health and Comfort of a Young Sportsman". Subsection: "What to Choose".

He will know better than to call for brandy or gin, but will order rum, knowing that that is a spirit* which would soon be spoiled by any tricks or adulteration...

*If a sportsman likes to take a flask of spirit, as a guard against cold, a stomach-ache, &c. he will, I think, find nothing equal to the real Highland Scotch, or Irish, whisky. Or, if he cannot get this, a little extrait d'absinthe Suisse; from Johnson's, or Sargenson's, Colnnade, Pall-mall.