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Show How'Copp Tested'lho Rum. A very old Inhabitant of Tllton and Wclnlty "a 111 remember tho late John Copp of Unj Hill, says a'wrlter In the Boston Herald. One year at haying time ho procured a barrel of new mm. After he had tapped It his wife warned htm that it would not be safe to drink It. "Why not?" lie 'asked. "No matter why not; b remember It will not ho safe for you to touch It," Bho replied. He wns frightened, hut was bound to test It. He went (lorn to tho village vil-lage and Invited an old soak to tho houso and tilled hhu up. Ho was afraid his wlfo had poisoned tho liquor. The noxt two ho' s were anxious anx-ious ones for Copp, but the old soak grew happier all the tlmo. The rum was pronounced safe, and It went tho way many mother barrel had gone. |