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Take a peep at the dining-room as you go by, Lemonade, claret cup, orange wine you will spy: And they're going to have two sorts of ices this year, Both strawberry-cream and vanilla, I hear.

We went to the library, and, by way of refreshment after our long walk in the sun, I told Effingham to make us some claret cup.

Er—oh, yes: it’s so hot, I think we might have a jug of claret cup.

"The claret cup's all right for Theodore, Mrs. Pope," said Magnet.

It is passed at the close of the dinner and may be wine, cider, claret cup or fruit punch.