Quite A Novelty.—Amiable Experimentalist. "Makes a delicious side dish, doesn't it? But it is not the common mushroom; it's a large fungus, called the agaricus procerus. It grows solitary in hedge rows, is called colubrinus, from the snake-like markings on its stem. The pileus is covered with scales, which are formed by the breaking-up of the mud-coloured epidermis, and——" [General panic takes place
THE DIRGE OF THE DINER
A Restore-Wrong Rhyme
"Attendance is charged in the bill!
Delighted we sit down to dine;
And order our food and our wine.