Why They Took Hock.
They did not often give dinner parties, and ' never gave a large one; but at the little reunions to which they did their Mends they liked everything of the best. So on the . afternoon of one of their choice little feasts l .the host summoned his boy in buttons, and said:
" Now, John, you must be very careful how you hand round the wine."
"Yes, sir." "These bottles with the black seals axethQ t best, and these with the red seals the inferior sherry. The best sherry is for after dinner ; the inferior sherry you will hand round with , the hock after soup. You understand— hook and inferior sherry after soup ?"
" Yes, sir," said the boy in buttons.
And the evening came, and the guests came, and everything was progressing admirably till the boy went round the table asking of every guest : " Hock or inferior sherry ?" Everybody took hock. .
Why They Took Hock.
Otago Witness, Issue 1932, 30 November 1888, Page 37
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