1863 Cups and their customs

CUPS AND THEIR CUSTOMS.

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will find favour with our readers, as a wind-up to our

brewings.

Recipe,

To a quart of whisky add the rinds of two lemons, an ounce of bruised ginger, and a pound of ripe w^hite currants stripped from their stalks. Put these ingredients into a covered vessel, and let them stand for a few days ; then strain carefully, and add one pound of powdered loaf sugar. This may be bottled two days after the sugar has been added.

LINES INSCRIBED UPON A CUP FORMED FROM A SKULL.

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In me behold the only skull, From which, unhke a living head, Whatever flows is never duU. I Hved, I loved, I qnafi"d, Uke thee : I died : let earth my bones resign : Fill up — thou canst not injure me The worm hath fouler lips than thine. Better to hold the sparkhng grape. Than nurse the earthworm's slimy brood ; And circle in the goblet's shape The drink of gods, than reptile's food. Where once my wit, perchance, hath shone, In aid of others' let me shine And when, alas ! our brains are gone. What nobler substitute than wine ?