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the
table,
no
one
presuming
to
apply
his
lips
to
it
until
two
persons
have
risen
from
their
seats.
The
origin
of
this
custom
is
ascribed
by
our
antiquaries
to
the
practice
of
the
Danes
hereto-
fore
in
England,
who
frequently
used
to
stab
or
cut
the
throats
of
the
natives
while
they
were
drinking,
the
persons
standing
being
sureties
that
the
one
holding
the
cup
should
come
to
no
harm
while
partaking
of
it.
Recipe.
Extract
the
juice
from
the
peeling
of
a
lemon,
and
cut the
remainder
into
thin
slices
put
it
into
a
jug
or
bowl,
and
pour
on
it
three
half
pints
of
strong
home-brewed
beer
g
and
a
s
Home-brewed
beer
is
here
recommended,
as
some
common
brewers
and
publicans
mix
with
their
beer
sulphuric
acid,
copperas,
tobacco,
capsicum,
cocculus
Indicus,
coriander
seeds,
grains
of
paradise,
allum,
and
burnt
sugar.
It
is
a
well-known
fact,
that
at
this
period
there
are
wandering
from
town
to
town
persons
who
call
themselves
66
Brewers'
Druggists,"
who
offer
for
sale