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suddenly stopped, for nothing came out of the bottle. Could it be- 

 empty ? Impossible ; it was too heavy for that. He shook it and 

 shook it, and tried again ; but still nothing came. It was very 

 curious. Then we peeped into the bottle, and found that the con- 

 tents were frozen, frozen to the very bottom ! There seemed to be 

 no use for our cups, so we got a stick and poked our good ' Three 

 Star' brandy out of the bottle. Besides the other object, our 

 parting-cup was intended to warm us there were fort} 7 -four degrees 

 below zero but it was a cold draught. 



We ate up our dram, said a grave good-bye, and went our 

 respective ways. 



