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with a pint of mild ale over a piece of well 

 baked (but not burnt) toast. These are the 

 proportions ; and if you will make it with 

 a quart of ale, you of course double the 

 quantity of wine, &c. Any wine will answer 

 the purpose, but if of two kinds, the better. 

 It should stand a quarter of an hour before 

 it is drunk, that the flavour of the sop may 

 be duly imparted to it. 



Hostess. I hope it 's made to your liking, 

 sir ? 



S. So good that we must have the tan- 

 kard replenished, Mrs. Slater. [Hostess 

 curtseys, and retires with the empty tan- 

 kard.] The widow^s late husband could 

 cast a line well, and knew where to look 

 for a trout as well as any angler in this 

 part of the country. He was a famous 

 man, too, for a pike, and helped much to 

 clear the water of that voracious fish. That 

 pike which you see in the glass-case over 

 the mantelpiece, was captured by him 



