THE FAMILY BEVERAGE
A little while ago, in a Lancashire town not far from Manchester, a clergyman was being entertained over the week-end by one of the .well-to-do but plain men of the place. As soon as the guest was settled by the on the Saturday evening, his host (says the 'Manchester Guardian) . asked him, ' Are you a teetotaller?' ' Well, no-o, not exactly,' was the reply. The master of the house received the statement with evident relief. ' Ah'm reight glad to hear it,' he said ' we'n had that sort stayin' with us afore. Now, if ye'd been' one o' them teetotallers, yo'd 'a' been wantin 7 soda-water and lemonade and lime-juice, and ginger-ale, and nobody knows what all. But as yo' a'nt a teetotaller yo'll "be satisfied wi' plain watter, like the rest on us.' •'
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New Zealand Tablet, 7 August 1913, Page 62
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135THE FAMILY BEVERAGE New Zealand Tablet, 7 August 1913, Page 62
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