DIET

Eat, drink, and be merry, for to-morrow ye diet.—William Gilmore Beymer.


There was a young lady named Perkins,

Who had a great fondness for gherkins;

She went to a tea

And ate twenty-three,

Which pickled her internal workin's.


"Mother," asked the little one, on the occasion of a number of guests being present at dinner, "will the dessert hurt me, or is there enough to go round?"