FREE BREAD AND BEER.
A correspondent writes to the London Morning Post to say that he paid a visit, to the Hospital of St. Cross at Winchester recently, and enjoyed the unique experience of being offered gratis, at the janitor’s door, bread and beer. The brqad was presented on a spotlessly clean wooden platter with a cross, apparently of-silver, on it, and the beer—’which, being a teetotaller, he declined—-would have been served in a horn cup,, whiph he saw, and fi om which he was informed the late King Edward drank.
He was also informed .that anyone calling was Offered similar entertainment gym, and that&the practice bad ' been observed for hundreds of years. How many weary travellers have paused, through the centuries, to enjoy the hospitality of the pious founder, and, doubtless, to bless him ?
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Putaruru Press, Volume VI, Issue 268, 24 December 1928, Page 5
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135FREE BREAD AND BEER. Putaruru Press, Volume VI, Issue 268, 24 December 1928, Page 5
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