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Show Cider Long In Use. Cider is among the very oldest of beverages. In Saxon times It was know as aepplewin, while some kind of fermented drink from the Juice of i wild apples seems to have been popu- ' lar even under the Romans. Mead (or meddyglln) which Pliny declared had ' all the bail qualities of wine and few ' of its good ones appears to have been ! ihe only tipple known In Great Britain before the Introduction of agriculture, i Now that sugar is "going up," we may, perhaps, hear mo of this ancient drink, derived originally from rain- i water and honey. |