All at the board round which is placed a downright family-party.
Old daddy seizes first the cup, and so begins his story,
And lectures on, with saws and jokes—a Mentor in his glory.
The mother next, and grandam too, confound you with their babble;
And worse and worse, the grandam's sire will mump, and grunt, and
gabble;
His daughter with her toothless gums, lisps out, "The dear old
fellow!"
And round and round the dotard nods, as fast as he grows mellow.— Anon.
The same.