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SHERRY

and if we are troubled with livers, and things of that sort, it finds us out quicker than any other potable. However, it retains two privileges, one of which it shares with Madeira, but the other, poor thing though it be, is its own. It claims by prescriptive right the extraordinary epithet of “nutty” and—it serves for a whitewash!

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