tel RETIS of tonic port still standing in the sideboard in the dining room. I gave it to our servant, explaining to her that it would be best mixed stdeboa with water, I could think of no one else to laidbudl give it to. That night Eliza found the girl crying in the kitchen. When Eliza asked her what was the matter, she said that she would rather say nothing, but that she wished to leave at the end of the month, Of course, Eliza said that I had been wrong, but I had told the girl as distinctly as I could speak that it was a wine which required mix ing with water. However, Eliza talked to her and she agreed to stay on. The following day the girl decided never to touch drink again, drink and seemed changed in many ways. She put strong d the bottle back in the sideboard; the was still more than half of it left. After that nothing happened in connection with the tonic port, until one day I noticed. that our cat seemed to be in poor health. I gave it some of the tonic port in a little milk. It drank the mixture quickly, somewhat to my surprise. I had one or two little things to do[87]