Our mutual friend . r heated for you those delectable drinks,Purl, Flip, and Dogs Nose. The first of these hummingcompounds was a speciality of the Porters, which, throughan inscription on its door-posts, gently appealed to yourfeelings as, The Early Purl House. For, it wouldseem that Purl must always be taken early ; thoughwhether for any more distinctly stomachic reason thanthat, as the early bird catches the worm, so the early purlcatches the customer, can not here be resolved. It onlyremains to add that in the handle of the flat-iron, and op-posite the bar was a very little room like a thr
Our mutual friend . r heated for you those delectable drinks,Purl, Flip, and Dogs Nose. The first of these hummingcompounds was a speciality of the Porters, which, throughan inscription on its door-posts, gently appealed to yourfeelings as, The Early Purl House. For, it wouldseem that Purl must always be taken early ; thoughwhether for any more distinctly stomachic reason thanthat, as the early bird catches the worm, so the early purlcatches the customer, can not here be resolved. It onlyremains to add that in the handle of the flat-iron, and op-posite the bar was a very little room like a three-corneredhat, into which no direct ray of sun, moon, or star, everpenetrated, but which was superstitiously regarded assanctuary replete with comfort and retirement by gas-lightand on the door of which was therefore painted its allur-ing name : Cozy. Miss Potterson, sole proprietor and manager of theFellowship-Porters, reigned supreme on her throne, theBar, and a man must have drunk himself mad drunk in- &IWu*. ofanHn
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