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 preserve; and this calm and temperate use of wine was, no doubt, what Homer meant to inculcate, when he said:

Good. Pass the bottle.

Sir Christopher does not seem to have raised our spirits. Chromatic, favour us with a specimen of your vocal powers. Something in point.

Mr. Chromatic, without further preface, immediately struck up the following