THE LITTLE TEA BOOK 



first to color tea and coffee with 

 milk ? It may have been a mad 

 prince, in the presence of his flatter- 

 ers and imitators, to be odd ; or just 

 to see if his flatterers would adopt 

 the act. 



The Eussians sometimes put cham- 

 pagne in their tea ; the Germans, 

 beer ; the Irish, whiskey ; the New 

 Yorker, ice cream ; the English, oys- 

 ters, or clams, if in season ; the true 

 Bostonian, rose leaves ; and the Ital- 

 ian and Spaniard, onions and garlic. 



You all know one of the following 

 lines, imperfectly. Scarcely one in 

 one hundred quotes them correctly. 

 / never have quoted them as written, 

 off-hand but lines run out of my 

 head like schoolboys out of school, 



" When the lessons and tasks are all ended, 

 And school for the day is dismissed." 



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