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There
was
a
touch
of
the
apropos
about
this
designation
.
Outside
things
appeared
rough
enough
;
while
inside
,
especially
if
you
entered
by
the
"
saloon
,
"
there
was
a
readiness
to
meet
you
half
way
,
with
a
mint
julep
,
a
sherry
cobbler
,
a
gin
sling
,
or
any
other
mixed
drink
known
to
trans-Mississippian
tipplers
--
provided
always
that
you
were
ready
with
the
picayunes
to
pay
for
them
.
The
saloon
in
question
would
not
call
for
description
,
had
you
ever
travelled
in
the
Southern
,
or
South-Western
,
States
of
America
.
If
so
,
no
Lethean
draught
could
ever
efface
from
your
memory
the
"
bar-room
"
of
the
hotel
or
tavern
in
which
you
have
had
the
unhappiness
to
sojourn
.
The
counter
extending
longitudinally
by
the
side
;
the
shelved
wall
behind
,
with
its
rows
of
decanters
and
bottles
,
containing
liquors
,
of
not
only
all
the
colours
of
the
prism
,
but
every
possible
combination
of
them
;
the
elegant
young
fellow
,
standing
or
sidling
between
counter
and
shelves
,
ycleped
"
clerk
"
--
do
n't
call
him
a
"
barkeeper
,
"
or
you
may
get
a
decanter
in
your
teeth
--
this
elegant
young
gentleman
,
in
blouse
of
blue
cottonade
,
or
white
linen
coat
,
or
maybe
in
his
shirt
sleeves
--
the
latter
of
finest
linen
and
lace
--
ruffled
,
in
the
year
of
our
Lord
eighteen
hundred
and
fifty
--
this
elegant
young
gentleman
,
who
,
in
mixing
you
a
sherry
cobbler
,
can
look
you
straight
in
the
face
,
talk
to
you
the
politics
of
the
day
,
while
the
ice
,
and
the
wine
,
and
the
water
,
are
passing
from
glass
to
glass
,
like
an
iris
sparkling
behind
his
shoulders
,
or
an
aureole
surrounding
his
perfumed
head
!
Traveller
through
the
Southern
States
of
America
you
;
can
not
fail
to
remember
him
?
If
so
,
my
words
will
recall
him
,
along
with
his
surroundings
--
the
saloon
in
which
he
is
the
presiding
administrator
,
with
its
shelves
and
coloured
decanters
;
its
counter
;
its
floor
sprinkled
with
white
sand
,
at
times
littered
with
cigar
stumps
,
and
the
brown
asterisks
produced
by
expectoration
--
its
odour
of
mint
,
absinthe
,
and
lemon-peel
,
in
which
luxuriate
the
common
black
fly
,
the
blue-bottle
,
and
the
sharp-tongued
mosquito
.
All
these
must
be
sharply
outlined
on
the
retina
of
your
memory
.
The
hotel
,
or
tavern
,
"
Rough
and
Ready
,
"
though
differing
but
little
from
other
Texan
houses
of
entertainment
,
had
some
points
in
particular
.
Its
proprietor
,
instead
of
being
a
speculative
Yankee
,
was
a
German
--
in
this
part
of
the
world
,
as
elsewhere
,
found
to
be
the
best
purveyors
of
food
.
He
kept
his
own
bar
;
so
that
on
entering
the
saloon
,
instead
of
the
elegant
young
gentleman
with
ruffled
shirt
and
odorous
chevelure
,
your
"
liquor
"
was
mixed
for
you
by
a
staid
Teuton
,
who
looked
as
sober
as
if
he
never
tasted
--
notwithstanding
the
temptation
of
wholesale
price
--
the
delicious
drinks
served
out
to
his
customers
.
Oberdoffer
was
the
name
he
had
imported
with
him
from
his
fatherland
;
transformed
by
his
Texan
customers
into
"
Old
Duffer
.
"
There
was
one
other
peculiarity
about
the
bar-room
of
the
"
Rough
and
Ready
,
"
though
it
scarce
deserved
to
be
so
designated
;
since
it
was
not
uncommon
elsewhere
.
As
already
stated
,
the
building
was
shaped
like
a
capital
T
;
the
saloon
representing
the
head
of
the
letter
.
The
counter
extended
along
one
side
,
that
contiguous
to
the
shank
;
while
at
each
end
was
a
door
that
opened
outward
into
the
public
square
of
the
incipient
city
.
This
arrangement
had
been
designed
to
promote
the
circulation
of
the
air
--
a
matter
of
primary
importance
in
an
atmosphere
where
the
thermometer
for
half
the
year
stands
at
90
degrees
in
the
shade
.
The
hotels
of
Texas
or
the
South-Western
States
--
I
may
say
every
part
of
the
American
Union
--
serve
the
double
purpose
of
exchange
and
club-house
.
Indeed
,
it
is
owing
to
the
cheap
accommodation
thus
afforded
--
often
of
the
most
convenient
kind
--
that
the
latter
can
scarce
be
said
to
exist
.
