A VALUABLE “SODA.”
The festive meeting held in London recently of the defenders of Lucknow during the Indian Mutiny was an agreeable and suggestive reunion. The dinner was held a Willis’s Rooms, and the veterans who assembled cordially congratulated each other upon being spared to dine together once more and fight their battles over again. Apropos of the siege a story was told of a gallant officer who found himself the envied possessor of the last bottle of Rawlings’ famous soda-water that remained in the fortress. It seems there was plenty of ice to the last, but only one bottle of the sparkling and refreshing beverage so grateful in India. The owner, by way of a joke, put the bottle up by auction, and the bidding eventually rose to; a guinea. There was .then a pause, upon which Captain —— said “ I won’t..sell ; it’s too little to divide, so I’ll drink it myself, as I may be shot in an hour.” He drank the soda-water, and lives to tell the tale. ’
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2132, 22 January 1880, Page 2
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170A VALUABLE “SODA.” South Canterbury Times, Issue 2132, 22 January 1880, Page 2
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