"PUEE CIDER VINEGAR."

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3209, 2 June 1879, Page 4

"PUEE CIDER VINEGAR."

The widow Delnor happened to pick up the'''vinegar jug as she was bvefhauling* the. pantry, andi finding • it/ empty /• she walked down to her favourite grocery, and laid down the hard cash for a-quart of pure cider vinegar. : On the -way ,home she tasted it: to make sure it wasn't.New Orleans molasses or codlivernoils; * After; reaching home She! took another sip to^ He certain it wasn't'apple butteri I 'Ta « little time sb!e got-' an ideathat: the grqeer had f sold her sweet cider "for spur vinegar,' and; she took 1 another''ta'gte. J ;The content^ were'all right/and widow Delnor made'np" her inirid that she'd go "down on the_ ground fldor and tell the old' cobbler jusll what she thought of him. _He,happenedJ to be a man wLo I didn't ilike much talk, and they werepullinghair.on the sidewalk when the officer came along. f'l'm just embarrassed.'tordeath, 1 sir/ *he.»be'gan',) as •■ the;c6urt'-nbdded his beadi for . her; statement.''" " I.d6n*t:say/that I' wasn't^'actin rg -rather >queerly,r 'but I couldn't have been'drtifik.'* iUid yotf ever; hear of anyone' getting . f drunk; on :pure' eider vinegar r|!."!' a ?»>™>;^y^ ■"•:/; -^' '"•'£;[ " I never did," was: the solemn, reply.' '"• "Then I'm to be:discharged; J 'stip i j; pose?" 1 -;: '■;. _ "; _.. /" r";\ '_ 'V"' r' •'Np£ ejjaeily' nr Ton' seei^i^^dcjl'stCt" make a bit of difference in la^r any one gets drunk on brandy, beer, or* lake water. It is the offence that the law punishei." ''But if 1 was ptire-cid^ finegafV a'nii: the very purest revjer'tast'efd."; r ' ' "It ttjigKthave,beeh',-Mifsi;Delnor; but I shall fine fdvi five, dollars, arid waria you against the practice of keeping Buch, liquids,in.tKe,house/', T '\]' 'i,' ",„ .'. \ -.. _.',,, .','.._ 'i I'll. pay,^Bir,.' but see, these ; tears-7 ', theße;widpw'B. ; tear'si''r -. r 'r ; ,!troj:»;-{/-. 'n-u ■ ','i-X Pee; them. "-rrExchange.; ; H,, i -.• -•>