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Show A Tuiit.bKomo RevBujo. During tlio reign of Charles II, the ago of gallantry, it was the custom among gentlemen when they drank a lady's health, in order that they might do her still more honor, to destroy at the same time some part of their clothing. cloth-ing. Upon one occasion Sir Charles Sedley was dining in a tavern, and had a particularly line necktie on. Whereupon Where-upon one of his friends, to play him a trick, dntnk to the health of a certain lady, at the same time throwing his necktie in the lire. Of course Sir Charles had to d- likewise, but he got even, for not long after that, dining with the same company, ho drank the health of a fair one, at the same time ordering a deritist whom he had engaged en-gaged to he present, to pull out a refractory re-fractory tooth which had been troubling him. Every one else was obliged In this manner to mourn a inolar.- |