What Beats Pipe and Fiddle

Come guess me this riddle what beats pipes and fiddle

What’s hotter than mustard and wilder than cream?

What best wets your whistle, what’s clearer than crystal

Smoother than honey and stronger than steam?

What’ll make the dumb talk, what’ll make the lame walk --

The elixir of life and philosopher’s stone?

A drinking song

“It’s like this,” Marc Frederick said. He picked up a piece of charred wood and drew three big circles on the surface of the tan stone between him and the r...