The Entail; or, The Lairds of Grippy
On the market day you keep a bottle of whisky and a glass on the counter, from which, as I understand, you are in the practice of giving your customers a dram--first preeing or smelling the liquor yourself, and then handing it to them.--Now, I would ask you, if Mr. Walkinshaw were to come to your shop on the market day, would you deal with him?--would you, on your oath, smell the glass, and then hand it across the counter, to be by him drunk off?'