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

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Toasts and After Dinner Speeches

ed, may they, like the roots, prove a real blessing to · the poor.

Horticultural Experiments-May the ·tree of free– dom soon be planted in Ireland, and may John Bull find it ·as difficult t o uproot it as he found it there

The Fair of Erin-The fairest of the fair-1nay their fare be our fare, the best of fare.

Americans and Irishmen-They may differ as to whether the patron saint of the latter had any hand in driving .out the enemies of the former-but in this they will agree-to stand together and fall together, before the foot of Briton shall again be placed, on the land of their birth or the land of their adoption. Ireland-St. Patrick destroyed its creeping things of other days-may his disciples speedily exterminate the political reptiles of the present age. The Ladies-The anxiety and solace of ottr lives: how to make adequate return for the blessings the~ confer is a continual perplexity-

"Why then a final note prolong, Or lengthen out a closing .song, . Unless to bid the gentles speed Who long have listed to our rede ; To every lovely lady bright,