That chorus girls in the old days got so tired of drinking champagne that the sound of a cork popping made them shudder.
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That the Massachusetts troops, after the first battle of Bull Run, didn't stop running until they reached Harrisburg, Pa.
§422
That General Grant was always soused during a battle, and that on the few occasions when he was sober he got licked.
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That the late King Edward used to carry on in Paris at such a gait that he shocked even the Parisians.
§424
That it takes an Englishman two days to see a joke, and that he always gets it backward even then.