Merchant, ` I hope you do not think I refuse to eat of it from a false delicacy: if you insist upon my compliance, I will submit but upon this condition, that, after eating of it, I may wash my hands, with your permission, forty times with alkali, forty times with the ashes of the same plant, and forty times with soap. that you honor my table? This ragout is excellent attempt not to excuse yourself from eating of it: you must do me that favor, as well as the rest.' Sir, replied the gentleman, who was a Bagdad.But before he had time to answer, вЂњIs it thus,' said the master of the house, We entreated him to tell us the occasion of his great dislike to garlic. With other delicacies, a course was served up, seasoned with garlic, which was delicious, and agreeable to all the company excepИ›ing one, who, it was observed, did not taste it, though it was placed immediately before him we therefore invited him to imitate us.Д«ut he conjured us not to urge him to an acquiescence so repugnant to his feelings: вЂI will take good care,' said he, not to touch a dish containing garlic I have not forgotten what the tasting of it once cost me. After the ceremony, we were entertained with a sumptuous feast: and each of the guests ate what was most agreeable to his palate. SIR-A person of distinction invited me yesterday to the nuptials of one of his daughters accordingly I went to his house in the evening, at the hour appointed, and found the company assembled, composed of doctors, ministers of justice, and other persons of the first consideration in this city.

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