. The Wedgwoods: being a life of Josiah Wedgwood; with notices of his works and their productions, memoirs of the Wedgwood and other families, and a history of the early potteries of Staffordshire. the kind of wagers which were laid over these curious i) verse runs thus— Here, gentlemen, come trj y skill,Ill hold a wager, if you will,That you Dont Drink this liq allWithout you spill or lett some Fall. Another one, which bears the name of A. Norris, has asomewhat similar verse— 54 THE WEDGWOODS. Gentlemen, now try your Skill,Ill hold 50U Sixpence, if you will,That you dout drink unless y
. The Wedgwoods: being a life of Josiah Wedgwood; with notices of his works and their productions, memoirs of the Wedgwood and other families, and a history of the early potteries of Staffordshire. the kind of wagers which were laid over these curious i) verse runs thus— Here, gentlemen, come trj y skill,Ill hold a wager, if you will,That you Dont Drink this liq allWithout you spill or lett some Fall. Another one, which bears the name of A. Norris, has asomewhat similar verse— 54 THE WEDGWOODS. Gentlemen, now try your Skill,Ill hold 50U Sixpence, if you will,That you dout drink unless you Spil. Another one which I have seen has simply the charac-teristic motto, The Ale is good, taste, around it; implying that it is of good taste if you can butget it! The accompanying is the representation of another puzzlejug of Staffordshire make, and of different construction,. preserved in the Jermyn Street Museum. It is, as will beseen, pierced through the centre. In some instances a tube is passed from the handle down,inside the jug, to the bottom, and thus adds to the difficultyof drinking, Without you spill or let some fall. In one in my own possession, too, the inside of the jug ismade funnel-shaped, with double sides, which is a veryunusual mode of construction. The same kind of ware as the Toft dishes, given on a pre-ceding page, was made in the potteries throughout the latter THE EARLY POTTERIES OF STAFFORDSHIRE. 55 lialf of the seventeentli and most part of the eighteenthfcnturics. Of this kind of ware is the highly interesting
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