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CONCLUDING REMARKS ABOUT SPECIAL OCCASIONS. In the pages of this book we have endeavoured to give, as succinctly as possible, a compendium of drinks of all kinds, and we only hope that it will be found useful by those who are wise enough to secure a copy before the Censor gets upon its track. There is little to add. We may mention that all the characters in the book are real persons, and that everything we have said about them is true, in substance and in fact. There is, however, one last word of advice which we feel bound to offer to you, one which is in some sort in the nature of a word of warning ; and that is to be particularly careful not to produce the wrong kind of drinks for the great occasions of your life. When for instance, your tailor pays you a formal call with 1a view to obtaining a reduction ofthe amount ofyour credit with him, you will not appease him by offering to split a bottle ofChampagne with him, pleading the ghastliness of your poverty the while. And never offer ginger-beer to the lady whose favour you intend to curry, however honourably, before the evening is out. Port should rarely be served at breakfast, and it is not correct to offer a parting guest a cocktail unless you feel that you have given him such a bad dinner that lie is probably going on to have, another one somewhere else, and needs an appetizer.

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