By those who can afford it, the wassail-bowl should be composed of sherry, well spiced and sweetened, reeking hot, flavored with lemon, and with roasted apples floating on the surface. Ale may be substituted for wine for those of inferior resources. "It is a good-natured bowl, and accommodates itself to the means of all classes, rich and poor; you may have it of the costliest wine or the humblest malt liquor. But in no case must the roasted apples be forgotten." The lamb's wool of our ancestors was nothing else but the wassail which we are describing. You may stir up the compound with a sprig of rosemary, if you wish to be baronial in the enjoyment of the admirable beverage.