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Joking Friends In I...

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Parent Issue
Day
17
Month
April
Year
1903
Copyright
Public Domain
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In a romantic and picturesque hall in Derbyshire, England, is one of those curious relics of bygone times which carry the mind back to the habits and customs of our great-great-grandfathers. A handcuff looks a strange thing to be fixed to the screen of the banqueting hall of a baronial mansion, but one is there. When the banquet had advanced toward its zenith, if any gentleman among the guests refused to drink the full quantity that was deemed the proper thing at that time he was merrily carried to the oak screen and placed with his arm upraised and secured and locked in that position by the iron ring. His sleeve, then wide open, offered a tempting receptacle for the wine which he had refused to drink, and the contents of the goblet, with as much more as the roisterers thought fit, were poured down the unlucky victim's arm, and woe be to him if he did not take the joke in the spirit in which it was given. - Philadelphia Telegraph.