While the cows stood flapping their tails about.
And Peggy as waitress played her part,
And John fell into the gooseberry tart.
I can't explain, though I wish I could,
Why everything tasted twice as good?
As it does at home in the cheerful gloom
Of the old familiar dining-room.
Every picnicky thing was there,
Including the girls and the son and heir,
A red-cheeked frivolous knife-and-fork's crew,