1863 Cups and their customs

CUPS AND THEIR CUSTOMS.

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black gown,, preceded by a verger, also wearing a black gown trimmed with silver braid, and bearing in his hand a silver wand. A Latin grace is then chanted, and the Prebend presents the boy with a shilling, who, having placed the cups on the table, marches out of the room, accompanied by the verger. The cups are then passed down each side of the table, and quaffed, by each guest in succession, to an appropriate toast. For the ^^ sensation-drinks ^^ which have lately tra- velled across the Atlantic we have no friendly feeling; they are far too closely allied to the morning dram, with its thousand verbal mystifications, to please our and the source from which ^^ eye-openers ^^ and ^^ smashers ^^ come, is one too notorious for un-English behaviour to be welcomed by any man who deserves well of his country : so we will pass the American bar, with its bad brandies and fiery wine, and express our gratification at the slight success which " Pick-me-up,^^ taste j

^^ Chain-lightning/' and the like,

^' Corpse-reviver,^^

have had in this country.

HINTS TO CUP-BUEWERS. There are certain things to be observed in the com- pounding of cups, which, though patent to every man\s common sense, we may be pardoned for mentioning. When a drink is to be served hot, never let the mixture