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Updated: September 15, 2025
We now arrayed ourselves in our best, and sallied ashore; and, at once, I piloted Harry to the sign of a Turkey Cock in Fulton-street, kept by one Sweeny, a place famous for cheap Souchong, and capital buckwheat cakes. "Well, gentlemen, what will you have?" said a waiter, as we seated ourselves at a table. "Gentlemen!" whispered Harry to me "gentlemen! hear him!
"Tousand donner no; I'm all in the way of fair trade just loaded yonder at Douglas, in the Isle of Man neat cogniac real hyson and souchong Mechlin lace, if you want any Right cogniac We bumped ashore a hundred kegs last night." "Really, sir, I am only a traveller, and have no sort of occasion for anything of the kind at present." Dirk Hatteraick knows how to be civil."
"Ah, yes," he said; "but this is the flower of the souchong; it is the blossom, the poetry of tea," and then he told me how it had been given him by a friend, a merchant in the China trade, which used to flourish in Boston, and was the poetry of commerce, as this delicate beverage was of tea. That commerce is long past, and I fancy that the plant ceased to bloom when the traffic fell into decay.
It was talked about everywhere in fashionable drawing-rooms at five o'clock tea, over thin bread and butter and souchong; at clubs, over brandies and sodas and cigarettes; by working men over their mid-day pint, and by their wives in the congenial atmosphere of the back yard over the wash-tub.
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