Show intoxicated ON WATER the Deve beverage rago flow from it fi spring la in the sierra maire madre mountains mounta tivi ever get drunk on water asked a traveler according to the st louis globe democrat you never did well theres where I 1 have the advantage of you the brunkest drunkest drun kest drunk I 1 ever experienced was the result of drinking drinkin 0 water I 1 was skylarking around down among the sierra madre mountains looking ra for a long lost spanish mine and making ma kingan an allaround all around fool of m myself y self for the of half a dozen mexican mozos when I 1 discovered a little spring bubbling r out of the side of a mountain the rivulet riv ulet was no thi thicker elcer than your little finger but ii was as icy cold 1 I started to fill my cup but one of the mexicans cautioned me not to drink it he said it was devil water and would make my head swim and cause my legs to grow weak I 1 questioned him closely and learned that the effects produced by the water were very similar to those resulting from alie absorption of too much bourbon lie ile said that the indians drank it for kidney troubles I 1 thought that if it did no worse than mak 0 o drunk I 1 would ifould tackle it and I 1 lid did it tasted U like a very poor quality of gin diluted with soapsuds soap suds but was so cold that heated as I 1 was I 1 could not let it alone I 1 suppose that I 1 must have drunk nearly a pint of the stuff during the hour we vo lingered in the vicinity I 1 soon began to feel the effects of it first I 1 required one moo to hold mo me on my burro then two found it a difficult job we went into camp and I 1 pledge you my word that for two days and nights I 1 was the drunkest brunkest drun kest man on the north american continent M |