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Show WHY THE NAME 'MOONSHINE' In Earlier Years the Illicit Liquor Was Supposed to Be Made Only at Night. America calls the liquor illicitly distilled, dis-tilled, especially in the Alleghany mountains, "moonshine." The apparent appar-ent reason is that it is believed to be distilled at night and secretly transported trans-ported without payment of a tax or the authority of official permit. The fact is, of course, that the secret stills work as hard in day as at night. England used the word in similnr manner, though not In the same ' sense. Over there moonshine is liquor that has been smuggled into the country without payment of a tax. The smuggling is usually done by small boats from the continent, that land at lonely shores at night, and the cargo is Unloaded by the light of the moon. It was this that gave the liquor its generic name. American moonshine is raw, imaged im-aged and often uncolored spirits. British Brit-ish moonshine may be the finest brandy bran-dy from France, the choicest rum from Jamaica. In (lie British Isles, especially Ireland, the popular name for home-distilled home-distilled spirits is "mountain dew," because be-cause it is in the hills that it Is made, far from the prying eyes of the excise ex-cise man. |