Quite unconscious that he was burying a cat in his melodious lines Moore wrote:—
“How sweet the answer Echo makes
To music at night...!”
A LAWYER’S PROPOSAL
Fee simple and the simple fee,
And all the fees in tail,
Are nothing when compared with thee,
Thou best of fees, fe-male!
A BROAD GRIN
“Sesquipedalia verba,” words a foot and a half long, were condemned by Horace in his “Ars Poetica.” Had he known English, what would he have said of “smiles,” a word so long that there is a mile between its first and last letters?
SWISS HUMOUR
A Swiss lad asked me, as I stopped quite breathless on an Alpine height, “Do you prefer ‘monter’ to ‘descendre?’” I declared a preference for downhill, but he most convincingly replied, “I prefer ‘mon thé’ to ‘des cendres!’” (my tea to cinders).
QUESTIONS WELL ANSWERED
Why did the penny stamp?
Because the threepenny bit.
Why did the sausage roll?
Because it saw the apple turn-over.