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Show 1 A Wise Englishman. I Tl, re !s a Phiiadelphian, having a j.-'uiniur imine near Cape Cod, who ! takes gre;:t pride in his cranberry mea-I mea-I dow. On one occasion this gentleman was entertaining an Englishman at dinner when the latter partook for the first lime in his life the delicacy known as 'cranberry sauce." He was iVlighted with it. Indeed, so much and so often did he express pleasure that, when he had returned to London, the Phiiadelphian sent him a barrel of the finest Cape Cod cranberries. A month or so passed, and then there came a letter of acknowledgment from the j Briton. "It was awfully good of you." said he. among other things, "to send me those herries. and 1 thank you. ! I'nfortimitely they all soured on the way over." |