1903 The Complete Buffet Guide or How to Mix All Kinds of Drinks by V.B. Lewis

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Toasts and A fter Dinner Speeches

A cheerful glass, a pretty lass A friend sincere and true. Blooming health, a good store of wealth, Attend c;m me and you.

The Hedger-He makes no friend who never makes a foe. The Good Things of this World-Parsons are preaching for them, Lawyers are pleading for them, Physicians are prescribing for them, Authors are writing for them, Soldiers are fighting for them, but true Philosophers alone are enjoying them.

Come, fill a bumper, fill it round, May mirth, wine and wit abound. In them alone true wisdom lies– For to be merry's to be wise.

The Fourth of July-like oysters, It cannot be enjoyed without crackers.

Here's to champagne, the drink divine That makes us forget our troubles; It's made of a dollar's worth of wine And three dollars' worth of bubbles. Health to the bold and dashing coquette Who careth not for me; Whose heart, untouched by love as yet, Is wild and fancy free.

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