GingerWine advert - Episode at Victoria

[Inter-war Stone's Ginger Wine advert. Also found in the Fortunes of a Family Firm book.]

Sip it
Drink it
Drain it
episode at Victoria

- Dramatic rescue of the Sultana of D'rincan Bewarma from a perished condition.

The Sultana shuddered in the North Wind and her teeth chattered loudly. At the sound, 23 porters salaamed, shouted "Sip it, Drink it, Drain it" with one accord and brought the Sultana a warming glass of Stone's Ginger Wine. The, fortified against the English climate, she sang the original Stone's Ginger Wine advertisment as it may be heard in the bazaars of her native Anuddersip.

Sip it
Feel it tingle on the tongue
Like pimento from Bangalore,
Sweet as my Sultans's smile
And warm as his righteous wrath.
Cling to my palate
O alluring potion!

Drink it
Feel the flood of comfort
That rushes through your veins
Till your being
Thrills like Lotus leaves
A-stir in a summer breeze.

Drain it
Till the crystal glass
Is empty as a maiden's heart
And the last sweet drop
Has put to flight the chill touch of winter
With its joyous warmth.

STONE'S GINGER WINE
THE ORIGINAL GREEN GINGER WINE
FAMOUS SINCE 1740