106 THE FIRST GLASS OF WINE}

 

“ Let me fill your glass for you?” said
his entertainer. — «© You don’t take | any-
thing.” co we

‘<I never take wine,” said Clare.

Dick, upon this, bent over and whispered
to the other boy — | Bee

‘© A perfect baby! His mother won’t let
him.” And then there was a’ whispered
consultation among the boys, with much
laughter and many mischievous glances
towards Clare. ies

| Clare, suspecting no evil, was innocently
eating his dinner with a hearty relish:

‘< You don’t take wine? Oh, then you
must have a Sherry Cobbler. I cannot
bear to see you eat your dinner without any- -
thing to wash it down,” said the boy enter-
tainer. ‘¢ Here, waiter, a Sherry Cob-

bler 1”