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Show !' t ! How It Started I j lit i Jean. Xevulon t 49- o "John Barleycorn" EVERYBODY knows John Barleycorn Barley-corn ; has heard of him, has talked about him, has seen him extolled and reviled, praised and damned, excused and excoriated. There is probably nothing and nobody no-body over which people haive taken more stubborn sides and clung more obstinately to their ideas; but John Barleycorn, personifying hard liquor, goes his way. The "Barleycorn" part of the name is, of course, easily identified as the ingredients out of which the particular partic-ular refreshment Involved Is made. But why "John Barleycorn?" Originally "John Barleycorn" was used synonymously with "innkeeper" from the obvious connection ; but its earliest recorded use is dated to the publication in 1651 of a song entitled "Sir John Barleycorn." . Bell Syndicate. WNU Service. |