INVITATIONS.
As a certificate of your intention to be punctual, you may send your friends, a similar billet to the following:—
My dear Sir,
The honour of your company is requested to dine with —— on Fryday, 1828.
The favour of a positive answer is requested, or the proffered plate will be appropriated as it was when—
Sir Ill-bred Ignorance returned the following answer:—"I shall be quite happy to come if I possibly can." Such words the committee voted were equivalent to these—I'll come, if in the mean time I am not invited to a party that I like better.—Dr. Kitchiner.