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than at any other point; should taper thereto from the bottom, or therefrom to the top—so that the soul of the wine comes concentrated into the mouth of its high priest. To be utterly avoided is the narrow hollow stem, which habours dirt or—what is as bad—inclines to the suspicion of dirt. Absolutely to be shunned is the flat superficies, for that, for reasons already insinuated, it prevents that first long, liberal draught which stamps the dinner a success.
Concerning Port and Claret there is less to be urged. The last has suffered much at the hands of the so-called Æsthetic; for it is a crying insult that he should be drunk out of opalescent and of art-green contrivances, unearthly as to their shapes; as it is that he should be degraded to the horrible magenta globosities you find at refreshment-
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