Tub.


——All the world’s a feast,

And all the men and women merely gourmands;

Few have their chef, they mostly pot-luck share,

But all guests in their turn try many plats,

The courses being seven, At first the Soup,

Unsatisfactory, greasy, and cold;

Then Fish, whose shining face is seen too long,

Proclaims his advent ere he comes in sight.