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

Toasts and After Dinner Speeches

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Here's to one and only one, And may that one be she, Who loves but one and only one, And may that one be me. Of all your beauties, one by one, I pledge; dear, I am thinking Before the tale were well begun I had been dead of drinking. Some hae meat and canna' eat, And some would eat who want it; · But we hae meat and we can eat, So let the Lord be thankit.

Here's to love; a thing so divine; Description makes it but less. 'Tis what we feel but cannot define, 'Tis what we know but cannot express.

Our Noble Selves-May we all travel to one desti– nation-happiness; although we may go by different roads. To America's daughters-Let all fill their glasses, Whose beauty and virtue the whole world surpasses; May blessings attend them, go wherever they will, And foul fall the man e'er offers them ill.

Be not elated if one soul is oppressed, Be not dejected .if one soul is blest.