saucering tea

[George Thompson]

I'm sure that this topic was batted about here recently, but the ADS-L archives do not seem to cover very recent material, so I can't confirm my memory.

In any event, the practice is alluded to in "Etiquette BLues", by The Happiness Boys, receorded in the mid or late 1920s,

GAT

George A. Thompson
Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern Univ. Pr., 1998, but nothing much lately.  Working on a new edition, though.

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