Twain's work contains few (I think) references to drink and he
himself, as far as I could tell, drank little -  warm whisky in
the evening before bed (my source is some now forgotten biography).
The whole period of American Literary Realism is a disappointment
for one interested in the cocktail.
I hope that someone will jump all over this message and tell me
that Twain has 10 references to the Martini.

Lowell Edmunds
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