DR. JOHNSON AGAIN 



THE good doctor evidently lived 

 up to his reputation as a tea- 

 drinker at all times and 

 places. Cumberland, the dramatist, 

 in his memoirs gives a story illustra- 

 tive of the doctor's tea-drinking pow- 

 ers : "I remember when Sir Joshua 

 Reynolds, at my home, reminded Dr. 

 Johnson that he had drunk eleven 

 cups of tea. < Sir/ he replied, < I did 

 not count your glasses of wine ; why 

 should you number my cups of 

 tea?'" ' 



At another time a certain Lady 

 Macleod, after pouring out sixteen 

 cups for him, ventured mildly to ask 



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