"Why, this cannot be Tokay!"
"Did you ever taste Tokay before?" said he.
"O yes, very often; but this is not Tokay."
"Be pleased to tell us what it is then," quoth Lestock.
"I don't know; but not Tokay, or a different sort from what I ever tasted, for that was sour and always drunk in green glasses."
Suddenly I recollected that I meant Hock!
Do you recollect the history of the Irishman, who declared that he had seen anchovies growing on the walls at Gibraltar? Challenged a gentleman for doubting him, met, and fired, and hit his man, and when the man who was hit, sprang up as he received the shot, and the second observed—"How he capers!"
"By the powers! It was capers I meant 'stead of anchovies."
To MRS. R. BUTLER.
1 NORTH AUDLEY STREET, Jan. 10, 1841.