1892 Drinks of the world

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DAVA'^VS.

Beer was, perforce, drank morning, noon and night by those, and they were the vast majority, who could not afford wine — and, as a rule, after the Norman Conquest, when, the Anglo-Saxons copied the soberer

customs of

their conquerors, the English were not

drunkards as a nation ;

fact, although almost

in

all

their jests hinge on drinking, there is in most of them an underlying moral, which in print are as telling as