THE ROLLING OF THE R'S.
"We are told that the omission to roll it (the letter r) is as flagrant a misdemeanor as the dropping of the h."—James Payn in the Illustrated News.
AIR—"The Wearing of the Green."
Soft-spoken Person sings:—
It's vewy wong, widiculous, and howwid, I've no doubt,
To leave that little letter r unuttahed or unwolled;
But if you haven't any r's you've got to do without,
And I can no maw woll my r's than dwink my clawet cold.
A Dowie wuggedness of speech I weally can't attain,
And though gwammawians may wave in leadewetts and pars,
I quite agwee with good JAMES PAYN that all their wow is vain,
The angwy wout must do without "the wolling of the r's!"
HAGIOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL NOTE.—Dr. HAROLD BROWNE, "the retiring Bishop" of Winchester, as he is called, on account of his innate modesty, wrote to the people of Farnham to say that, "never was there a Bishop since the time of his earliest predecessor in the See, St. Swithin, more literally 'at home' at Farnham Castle than himself." To this fact Dr. H.B. is, perhaps, unaware that the Saint in question owed his name, as when any visitor called to ask if he were at home, the Hall-porter of the period invariably answered, "Yes, Saint's within." Dr. HAROLD BROWNE is welcome to this information, which ought to have been in Notes and Queries.
It is said that the invitations for the Drury Lane celebration of Twelfth Night will not be sent out with so free a hand next year, the young men on the recent occasion having been so Baddeley behaved.
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