Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1884-07-01
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The Most Extraordinary Thing BE
Ever Saw in His Life. 5 81
His Friends from BOston..Clam Cock.
talIs--In q Pewter Pitcher.
Bitter RemOrse..ssAt
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New York Sun. ]

"S mos'xtronary thing 1 ever saw n
m life," remarked morose-looking young
man as he dropped heavily into chair in a
popular cafe uptown last night and gravely
| nodded his head TO severa. acquaintances. II
fell in with tn Philistines on IN way up
town, an they got til best Of me. I'm done
brown" er
He shook his head with solemn disap-
proval and began to make rings on the damp
table with the bottom Of an empty glass
His scarf was awry, his hair disarranged
and bis coat buttoned irregularly. fhert
was an expression of intense and bitter re-
morse on his face, and his words were thick
He was broker. His friends sat around
the table in Longing attitudes and grinned
with amusement at one another as they drew
him out
"whom did you meet, Blly.' asked one OF
them kindly. ftltlEt
"Boston friends" he remarked lugubri-
ously, "wbo asked ma if I'd ever had a clam
cocktail. Told m I'd never heard 4 t. They
said twas an old thing in Bosom, and that
twas tn hes thing to brace up on in tn
world. Well, you know me, Pets. I'm al.
ways ready TO brace, an so we went down
in Pine street an had two r three clam
cocktails apiece-ferget how many"
@How DO you make them, Bile,
snake who" asked Billy, who had fallen
half asleep after his effort "Oh, yes, can
cocktails. Take clam-small clan-put in
lemon squeez'r an squeeze juice in glass.
Also put in juice from she'll Then SIN bit
tiers, red pepper, an DASH salt. Mix an
drink. It's 'mense."
SIS that all you had2'
swell, dye mean 9 insinuate that I'm as ]
yam for claInsi 10, sir We then went W.
town, an one OF the Bos'n boys said he had
drink in Liverpool that pleashed i'm yer
much. SO We 'ad som 4 that 1t consists Of
small glass sherry an largsh glass ginger ale.
Mix 'em up. Knock you cold. We 'ad lot,
an then we 'ad SIN brandy an soda with
me.-
Here he relapsed into doze, from which
lac was with difficulty aroused.
@Afr that" be continued, laboriously,
zone of the boys ask'd us T we'd try drink
he'd found in Bool-Boolgaria, which said we
would, bein' then up in sharp. So We went
into place in broadway an we got porter
percber--percher, puter-' So
pewter pitcher'"
"Yes per-pew-well, we got one. Then
we took two bottles Scotch ale an one small
bottle champagne an mixed 'em with
chopped ice in pew-pi-y know what
Well, we did this three times an then one of,
of tn fellrs said shandygaff would &c
good, which we did it an twas a success" p
How far up town were you at this timer
"At thish period we were in TIL neighbor
hood of Bleek'r street. Then we had s'n
Holland gin with me-"
This reflection again sent him Off into G
REVERE, which threatened dead stupor. He
reused himself suddenly, and then announced
impressively:
But tn thing that Knocked us all was q
Russian drink one Of tn boys 'ad 'ad in Sainl
Petey-Petersburg I'll tell you 'ow you
make it. First, take brandy an fill cham
payne glass half full, then pour champagne
In it,, an then-then--"
"Well, what thenf'
drink t."
@Then,"
9Then get in cab an gomez