Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 February 1910 — A Toothsome Revenge. [ARTICLE]

A Toothsome Revenge.

During the reign of Charles 11., the age of gallantry, it was the custom among gentlemen when they drank a lady’s health in order that they-might do her still more honor to destroy at the same time a part of their clothing. Upon one occasion Sjy Charles Sedley was dining in a tavern and had a particularly fine necktie On, whereupon one of his friends to play him a trick, drank to the health of a certain lady, at the Same time - throwing his necktie in the fire. Of course Sir Charles had to do likewise, but he got even, for not long after that, dining with the same company, he drank the health of a fair one, at the same time ordering a dentist whom he had engaged to be present to pull out a refractory tooth which had been troubling him. Everyone else was obliged in this manner to mourn a molar. Anyway, a square meal is as broad as ft is long.