Show HAD T TO SWALLOW AND PRAISE 0 boastful innkeeper carried bluff through to the end dr john F russell of 0 new york whose emulsion of fats and d corn com pounds of vegetable juices has done so much tor for the cure ot of consumption said at a meeting of physicians that he did not wish to praise too ardently his discoveries for they who speak ot of their own work he said are always a little ridiculous and sometimes they stumble like a certain innkeeper into a pitfall this innkeeper a new hampshire man was notorious for the bad quality of his beer A joker from sunapee a gentleman named perley said one day that he would put up a trick on the innkeeper and as he sat at a table with some friends in the inn he poured a lot of vinegar and pepper into a glass ol 01 beer before him then perley made a horrible face and roared out dreadful its it s a shame this Is 1 not beer it Is poison pale with mith rage the landlord hur ried in what s the matter with iou per leye he said that beer Is all right all right Is it ita said perley wink ng at his companions well just taste it and see if it s all right the landlord put the full glass of doctored beer to his lips he drained the vile mixture to the last drop then determined to stand up tor himself at all costs he said an excellent glass of beer I 1 never t tasted asted a better |