THE LITTLE TEA BOOK 



coffee-houses for making single tea/' 

 which, being disposed of by " inch of 

 candle/' fetched an average of twelve 

 shillings a pound. 



During the next three years the 

 consumption of tea was greatly in- 

 creased ; but very little seems to 

 have been known about it by those 

 who drank it if we may judge from 

 the enlightenment received from a 

 pamphlet, given gratis, "up one flight 

 of stairs, at the sign of the Anodyne 

 Necklace, without Temple Bar/' All 

 it tells us about tea is that it is the 

 leaf of a little shoot growing plenti- 

 fully in the East Indies ; that Bohea 

 called by the French "Bean Tea" 

 is best of a morning with bread and 

 butter, being of a more nourishing 

 nature than the green which may be 

 used when a meal is not wanted. 



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