For we'd had an invitation, just the same as F.P.A.!
Christopher Morley
(Acting, in spite of himself, as if the Bird were his long-lost brother, and locating the Grackle, for poetic purposes, in his own home.)
THE MOCKING-HOARSE BIRD
Good fowl, though I would speak to thee
With wonted geniality,
And Oxford charm in my address,
It's not quite easy, I confess: