Tea, its history and mystery

by Joseph M. Walsh

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COPYRIGHTED, 1892,

BY

JOSEPH M. WALSH.

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All Rights Reserved.

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PREFATORY.

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Utility, not originality, has been aimed at in the compilation of this work. The obstacles and difficulties its author had met with in his endeavors to learn something of the article he was commissioned to sell when he first entered the Tea trade, the almost total lack of knowledge displayed by the average dealer in the commodity, allied to the numerous inquiries for a work containing “all about tea,” first prompted the undertaking.