What His Liquor Was.
On their arrival at New Zealand a. party of English people drank the health of the vessel which had- brought them safely to their destination, One of the gentlemen who was asked to join in the ceremony replied i « No, I'm a teetotaller ; hut I'll willingly drink success to the ship in the liquor she floats in.' ' A friend disappeared and 'returned, with a glass of water. After a complimentary apostrophe feo the ship, the recipient tq^ed; the water off at , once, but immediately, spluttered : - <U £ h "~3&— QJh - this is— oh— what— what^ on eiti^hja this?* I .ThafeT said his friend. ' Why, you've drunk success to our noble ship- in the iden^ ticaMiquorshe floats in.*'
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Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 336, 23 January 1889, Page 6
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120What His Liquor Was. Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 336, 23 January 1889, Page 6
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