1938 Famous New Orleans Drinks and how to mix'em (3rd printing) by Stanley Clisby Arthur

Eight

Why We Clink Glasses

(A Toast for Toasters)

When friends tvith other friends contrive

To ma\e their glasses clin\,

Then not one sense of all the five

Is absent from a drinl{.

For touch and taste and smelland sight

Evolve in pleasant round,

And tvhen the flotving cups unite

We thrill to sense of sound.

Folly to loo\ on tvine? Oh, fie

On ivhat teetotallers thinks . . .

There're altvays five good reasons tvhy

Good fellotvs likj; to drin\.

E. B. A.