That same dinner will take you some seasons forgetting!
The claret was sour, the "tinned" oysters, Blue Point;
And moreover 'tis really a little upsetting,
For the cook to come up very drunk with the joint!
And when to crown this you are asked to expel her,
And find a Policeman,—that is, if you could.
It may soothe you to hear yourself called "a good feller,"
But can you admit that the dinner was good?
And so when you meet Johnson going up to the City,
It somehow to-day does not strike you as odd,