THE OLD WOMAN AND THE EMPTY CASK.

An Old Woman, seeing a Wine Cask, which had been emptied of its

contents, but the very lees of which still perfumed the air with a

grateful cordial scent, applied her nose to the bunghole, and snuffing

very heartily for some time, at last broke out into this exclamation: O

delicious smell! How good! how charming must you have been once, when

your very dregs are so agreeable and refreshing!

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