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in red ! don't think me personal) ; so Mr. Esau used 

 to come in with the dessert and go out with the small 

 hours. 



At first he was contented with claret, but pro- 

 gressively advancing in the scale of sociality and 

 wisdom, he imbibed the same idea as that entertained 

 by respectable old Sam Johnson, that " claret was 

 made for boys, port for men, and brandy for heroes," 

 so to cognac he came, and as sure as the night arrived, 

 Mr. Esau was "as drunk as a lord." 



To make an end of it. 



Dr. 's surgery-door, as fate would have it, was 



one day inadvertently left open, and in his pursuit of 

 knowledge under difficulties, Esau took advantage of 

 the circumstance to dip into the mysteries and hiero- 

 glyphics of pharmacy. 



But man will err, and why not a monkey ? 

 Green, pink, blue, and crimson coloured bottles might 

 have excited curiosity, but they were left untasted. 

 One large plain glass bottle did all the mischief, it 

 contained a fluid resembling in colour British brandy, 

 and that was quite sufficient for Esau. 



Without stopping to smell, the poor fellow finished 

 half the bottle at the first pull, and made his exit 

 from the troublous scene of life with half a pint of 

 laudanum in his interior ; leaving behind him a name 

 that will long be remembered by those that knew 

 him, and a moral to man and monkey to avoid British 

 brandy. 



