Crossword-Solution: MEZCAL 6 letters, 9 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 19

From the latter plant the natives make the pulque, mezcal and agua-diente; and the petahaya or cereus, produces a fruit from which is made a very pleasant preserve.

Both had probably been refreshing themselves with pulque--perhaps even with its homoeopathic extract _mezcal_; but the Indian was sober and sad, and stood with his arms folded, and the most patient and pitying face, while his wife, quite overcome with the strength of the potation, and unable to go any further, looked up at him with the most imploring air, saying repeatedly--"_Mátame, Miguel, mátame_" (Kill me, Miguel--kill me)-- apparently considering herself quite unfit to live.

The bells were tolling, and they were letting off rockets for some Indian festival, and we met parties of the natives who had been keeping the festival upon _pulque_ or _mezcal_ (a strong spirit) and were stumbling along in great glee.

Trapped and hunted here since I was twenty, and I'm nigh on to sixty-five now." "Have these Apaches a camping-place near here?" "Yes; they spend a part of every year here-abouts, gatherin' mezcal.

Whether it be the mild intoxicant _pulque_ of the plateau--for the beverage will not keep in the _tierra caliente_--or whether the fiery _aguadiente_, or cane-rum, or the potent _mezcal_, also made from _maguey_, the habit of drinking to excess is the ruination of the working class.