“When I demanded of my friend what viands he preferred,
He quoth: "A large cold bottle, and a small hot bird!"”

— Eugene Field, A Little Book of Western Verse

The Bottle and the Bird, st. 1
A Little Book of Western Verse (1889)

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He quoth: "A large cold bottle, and a small hot bird!"”