A good story is told of a gentleman dining with a merchant. A dusty old bottle of wine had been carefully decanted, and a glass filled. “ Now, you can’t guess what that cost me ?” said the host.—" Surely not. I only know that it is excellent.”—“ Well, now, I can tell you, for 1 made a careful estimate the other day. When I add the interest to the first price, I find that it cost me the sum of just five shillings per glass I ’ —‘ ‘ Good gracious 1 You don’t say so !” said the gentleman ; and then, draining his glass, he hastily presented it again, with the remark, “Fill up again as quick as you can, for 1 want to stop that confounded in* tereat,”
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Evening Star, Issue 3249, 19 July 1873, Page 2
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125Untitled Evening Star, Issue 3249, 19 July 1873, Page 2
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