THROUGH A GLASS LIGHTLY
SHERRY
social inferior of the Vintner; yet what a lesson the one may learn from the other! For, consider the magnificent intensity, the superb restraint, of this announcement:
| New-laid eggs | 2d. each. |
| Fresh eggs | 112 d.each„ |
| Eggs. | 1s. a doz. |
| Cooking eggs | 6d.a doz.„ |
Eggs for electioneering
purposes |
2s. 6d. a hundred. |
Ever so much is said, and how few the words! It is the padding of a volume in the pith of a paragraph. On such lines should catalogues be built. Four epithets at most, and the whole kingdom is neatly and exhaustively differentiated. To the Man of Eggs, you, Man of Wine, and learn wisdom and the “value of reserve.”
Spain’s chivalry was laughed away
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