1938 Famous New Orleans Drinks and how to mix'em (3rd printing) by Stanley Clisby Arthur

Why We Clink Glasses

(A Toast for Toasters)

When friends tvith other friends contrive To ma\e their glasses clin\, Then not one sense of all the five Is absent from a drinl{. For touch and taste and smelland sight Evolve in pleasant round, And tvhen the flotving cups unite We thrill to sense of sound. Folly to loo\ on tvine? Oh, fie On ivhat teetotallers thinks . . . There're altvays five good reasons tvhy Good fellotvs likj; to drin\.

E. B. A.

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