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a bottle of such as that would not
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answered, " Yo'nre very good—it's very nice, I'm sure."
And then the poor thing put another spoonful of the filthy
stuff to her lips. Whereupon poor, dear mamma (who
was determined not to be baulked of the compliments she
innocently thought she was entitled to) tried to prevail on
some of the other poor things (who really, considering all,
had borne it like martyrs) to go on with theirs. But Mrs.
B—yl—s politely excused herself by saying she thought
it was not quite so rich as some of mother's that she had'
had the pleasure of tasting before, and that sweet woman,
Mrs. C—rt—r, said that she was afraid the brandy had
gone off a little, (and so it had, with a vengeance.) On
which Edward (lawyer like), fancying something was
wrong, and thinking it a good opportunity for teasing his
noor. dear. innocent mother-in-law. took a glass himself,

and had no sooner tasted it, than, instead of swallowing
it, like a gentleman, he spit the whole into the fireplace,
declaring he had never in all his life tasted such beastly
trash. Whereupon dear mamma, who believed that he
only said as much to annoy her, took a glassfull likewise ;
and scarcely had she put her lips to it. than she gave a
scream, and the poor, dear soul spluttered it all out of her
mouth again, exclaiming—" Oh that shameful minx of a
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hasn't been and drunk all the brandy, and filled the bottle
up again with what I'd swear was nasty filthy cold tea and
unripe cherries." No sooner had she made the discovery,
than all the poor dear ladies who had partaken of the. fil-
thy mixture uttered a Diercine scream, while that unfieel-

ing wretch, Edward, rushed out of the'room, and I could
actually hear the brute bursting with laughter on the land-

ing-place.
All the dears agreed with poor mamma—who was boil-
ing over, (if I might be allowed ithe expression,) that it
was very shameful c3nduct on the part of the maid, and
hoped that mamma would not let it take any effect upon
her on their account, as really they didn't mind about it.
And then taking a glass of sherry wine a-piece, just to take

the taste out of their dear mouths, they all hurried away,
and in less than te'h minutes we were left alone in the

Then we both agreed to make that cat, Mary, finish
before our very eyes the whole of the other bottleful,
(which we made up our minds she had, of course, served
in the same manner.) and directly after she had eaten it

all up, to give her''warning, as .it would be the best way
of punitting her for her wicked goings-on. So down-
stairs we went, and having got the bottle out of the store-
room cl9set, we made the wretch devour the whole of it
on the spot—though from the ready way in which the
minx resigned herself to her fate, and from the effect it
had upon her shortly afterwards, (for it only made her
more tipsy than before,) to our horror we found out that
she had never touched that bottle at all—and, indeed, she
told us as much when she drunk up every drop, and had

So we immediately gave her warning, and told her not to
think of sending to us for a character, indeM. But in
the evening, the cherry brandy we had forced her to take,
made her so dreadfully bad, that we had to carry her up-

nothing to us, compared with the good humour it put
Edward into ; who kept telling us, with a nasty vulgar
giggle, that we ought to be ashamed of ourselves for driv-
ing the poor girl into another fit ; and he said he hoped
that dear mamma would take care that the next servant
she engaged for him wasn't subject to epilepsy, (an aggra-
vating monster !)

AN INCONSISTENCY.—" The horror which is especially
evinced in the minds of us all by the death of one man
by railway accident, more than by other means, I have
often thought must result from the idea that at any time
it may be our own case ; yet here are thousands upon

thousands annually destroyed around us by means as
fatal, but, with common care, more easily prevented,
which at any moment may seize upon the strongest of us ;
and this, until lately, with scarcely a word or a thought
upon the subject.
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