Legal Adulteration


SEVERAL publicans being assembled at Malton, in Yorkshire, in order to

renew their licenses to retail beer, the worthy magistrate addressed one

of them (an old woman), and said he trusted she did not put any

pernicious ingredients into the liquor; to which she immediately

replied: I'll assure your worship there's naught pernicious put into

our barrels that I know of, but the exciseman's stick.



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