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A.
FIRESIDE NUGGIN
T
o
thole who have taken part in the
animated dilcuffions before the
winter flres of blazini logs following
the return from Come of the Squire's famous
coon hunts, his "Tom and Jerry" needs
no
introduB:ion. For
£o
many years has
this companionable anc;l warming toddy
been affociated with the more intimate
ho!pitality of the Squire that it has come
to be regarded as almoft a part of the winter '
hearth idelf. The Squire learned the Cecret
of this potion from "old Tom" himfclf,
who, with his,brothcr Jerry,
firft
dilcovercd
its allurements, and gave it to pofterity
under their combined names, and on many
inftances•has
it
been laid to have voided
off
the ills to which
ffefh
is heir. As a hot and
bracing ftimulant in cold weather, this
beverage has been truly laid to want no
tithe of
chan~e.
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