1847 Oxford night caps (4th edition)

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the table, no one presuming to apply his lips to it until two persons have risen from their seats. The origin of this custom is ascribed by our antiquaries to the practice of the Danes hereto- fore in England, who frequently used to stab or cut the throats of the natives while they were drinking, the persons standing being sureties that the one holding the cup should come to no harm while partaking of it. lemon, and cut the remainder into thin slices put it into a jug or bowl, and pour on it three half pints of strong home-brewed beer g and a s Home-brewed beer is here recommended, as some common brewers and publicans mix with their beer sulphuric acid, copperas, tobacco, capsicum, cocculus Indicus, coriander seeds, grains of paradise, allum, and burnt sugar. It is a well-known fact, that at this period there are wandering from town to town persons who call themselves 66 Brewers' Druggists," who offer for sale Recipe. Extract the juice from the peeling of a