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Show Bishop Potter relates that a certain Baltimore layman who was a very good judge of wines offered of-fered some very Indifferent claret to a clergyman clergy-man who was his visitor. Afterwards his wife said to him: "Mr. W , I think that was very poor claret that you left out for Dr. J. ." "It was," answered her husband, 'but he didn't know it. I have had one lesson which has taught me never to waste anything good on the clergy. You know how I loved Dr. A. Cleveland Cleve-land Coxe? Well, when he left Baltimore I gave him six bottles of that X Maderia. You know its value. It is priceless. It was worth its weight in gold. In New York L went one day to Dr. Coxe's rectory to lunch. At the table the rector pressed upon me all that it offered, until at length I said: 'Thank you. I am not very well; indeed, I am rather faint; and I wonder, doctor, if I could have a glass of that Maderia that I gave you when you left Baltimore?' 'Certainly,' said the rector, turning to the lady who presided at the other end of the table, 'Lucy, dear, where is that Maderia that Mr. W gave us?' 'Why, don't you remember, love?' said the lady of the house, 'I used It to wash the baby with!'" The Argonant. |