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Anonymous: from "The Martinet" (1832)

The following description of a particular personality type appears to have been reprinted from Tait's Edinburgh Magazine in The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. XIX. No. 541, Saturday, April 7, 1832. — Alice, the Anchovy Schoolmarm

. . . He produces anchovy toast as an indispensable in a long evening, after dinner, and to it he recommends a liqueur-glass of cherry-brandy, which he believes is of that incomparable recipe, of which the late King was so fond. . . .

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