Spies he a broker's door with pots to let?

There from the earliest dawn he takes his stand,

To see whose cook arrives; from him he learns

Who 'tis that gives the feast,—flies to the house,

Watches his time, and, when the yawning door

Gapes for the guests, glides in among the first. —J. A. St. John.


Anaxippus. (Book iv. § 68, p. 271.)

Soup-ladle, flesh-hook, mortar, spit,

Bucket and haft, with tool to fit,