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Show Effective Dunning Letter. King Louis or Portugal years ngo promised to send Rossini a pipe of port of a vintage of which specimens havo oaly been preserved In tho royal collars. col-lars. Tho wino did not arrive, but tho maestro was not a man to allow a promlso to bo forgotten. Accordingly ho to'ok up his pen and Indltod to his Portuguese majesty tho following ro-minder: ro-minder: "You promised mo some port wine, slro. and It has not arrived. Your majesty hnB certainly not forgot-ton forgot-ton your promise, for sovereigns novor nov-or forget, but allow mo to remind you that I am old and that at my age thcro Is no tlmo to bo lost." |