A Whiskey Sponge.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 4715, 5 August 1893, Page 6

A Whiskey Sponge.

A neat triok wsb played npon • me by aa old toper the other day, writes a publfoaSl The toper brought in a bottle and asked for two shillings' worth of whiskey. I drewjit, and clung to tbe bottle , white he went throngh his pockets after the Bilver.

Presently be put on a look of dismay, and said he had lost his money. "All right," said I; and turned bat the whiskey aad pat tbe bottle on the oounto. He took the bottle and went away, gar* ing be would be back for the whiskey, presently. *■' - • ■ ',-/•.-■■_,. ■•'.* . : *;:'V. He did not come baok, however; but five minutes later I found him sitting ronnd toe oorner poking something into the bottle with a stiok, and after every poke tarn out thimbleful of whiskey into a ■ 1 seized the bottle and made an investigation. , ..•.•■.,'.. What do you think I found P Why tha old rascal had forced a sponge as big as my clenched fist into the bottle, and this had Boaked up a glassful of my whiskey when I filled the bottle.

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