There was a young lady named Maud,

A very deceptive young fraud;

She never was able

To eat at the table,

But out in the pantry—O Lord!


"Father's trip abroad did him so much good," said the self-made man's daughter. "He looks better, feels better, and as for appetite—honestly, it would just do your heart good to hear him eat!"


Whistler, the artist, was one day invited to dinner at a friend's house and arrived at his destination two hours late.