Seeing the spring approach, Monsieur Pivrs, wine and spirit merchant, resolved to have the front of his shop repainted.
Monsieur Pivre, we may at once acknowledge it, is a very uninteresting person. Be belongs to. the category of those contemptible individuals who sell, under the misleading denomination of wine, a anixture of Seine water, alcohol, amyligne, bicarbonate of soda, and fuchsine.
Monsieur Pivre instead of putting his shop under the patronage of one of the Borgias, had the cheek to take this sign
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.