Sometimes sherry or port wine is substituted for cider. The
tankard is put into a pitcher, which is iced in a tub,
procured from the confectioners.
* Decrements.--The use of knives, folks, spoons, and other
necessaries, with the firing, &c. for the hall and chapel.
~139~~ We must give our old _con_, Blackmantle, a warm reception."
"Sure, that's a Paddyism"{31} said a young Irish student. "Nothing of
the sort," replied Horace: "are we not all here the sons of Isis (Ices)?
and tell me where will you find a group of warmer hearted souls?"
"Bravo! bravo!" shouted the party. "That fellow Eglantine will create
another _Pun_-ic war," said Sparkle. "I move that we have him crossed in
the buttery{32} for making us laugh during dinner, to the great injury
of our digestive organs, and the danger of suffocation." "What! deprive
an Englishman of his right to battel{33}" said Echo: "No; I would
sooner inflict the orthodox fine of a double bumper of _bishop_."
"Bravo!" said Horace: "then I plead guilty, and swallow the imposition."
"I'll thank you for a cut out of the back of that _lion_,"{34} tittered
a man opposite. With all the natural timidity of the hare whom he thus
particularised, I was proceeding to help him, when Echo inquired if he
should send me the breast of a swiss {35} and the facetious Eglantine,
to increase my confusion, requested to be allowed to cut me a slice off
the wing of a wool bird.
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