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Title: Reminiscences of Oxford
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Tuckwell, William, 1829-1919
Subjects: University of Oxford
Publisher: London (etc.) New York : Cassell and company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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lemanlike, handsome man,with a fine house on Pieadinglon liill. One(jf his stories deserves i-ecital. A countymagnate, notorious for his meanness, hadordered six dozen of a tine brown sherry,which he sent back l)y-ajKl-by, minus onebottle, with a message that the Duke hadtried the wine and disapproved of it. Putit back, said Jjatimer to his cellarer, andwell call it the Dukes wine. Entertaininga party at luncheon soon after, he narratedthe incident, and proposed that they shouldtry the wine. lp came a bottle ; the guestssmelt, tasted, looked at one another, saidnothing, till Latimers glass was filled. It wastoast and water; so was the whole binn :the bottles had been opened, the wiiK^ di-awjioil*, the simpler fluid substituted. Crossing from the Old Bank ijito CatStreet, you might read in large letters on theAll Souls wall No Bristol Riots, paintedthere in 1831. Ten years ago it was stillvisible ill certai)! conditions <jf sujilight. The.squalid cottages in Cat Street had Jiot been
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MOTHER GOOSE.From a Coloured Lithograph by Dighton. WALK ABOUT ZION. 251 long pulled down, and the Radclifie surroundedwith railings. )\y this last adornment hangsa tale. The outer walls of Brasenose andLincoln exactly touch one another in BrasenoseLane; you may walk from the Brasenose gateopposite the Eadcliffe to Lincoln gate inthe Turl without taking your hand from themasonry. It was in the days when, after din-ner, gentlemen became unsteady in their walk ;when the joyous closing stave of MaginnsOde to a Bottle of Old Port— How blest are the tipplers whose heads can outlive The effects of four bottles of thee ;But the next dearest blessing that heaven can give Is to stagger home muzzy with three— was quoted with approval and from ex-perience round many a mahogany tree; andit is easy to understand how oj)portune to awine-cheered veteran would be the continuoussupport and guidance open to him so long as,like Pyramus, he should draw near the wall.A jovial club, the bibulous champi

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