The more so, as you've just dropped in to get
A cup of tea and smoke a c-g-r-tte.
(By Jove, I hope I haven't giv'n the show away!)
Well, I've not said much, but I've thought the more:
If I were fulsome in your praise, why, "Drat it!" you'd
Most probably remark, or "What a bore!"
So, therefore, please between the lines explore—
'Twas you who bade me thus descend to platitude!
'Arry says he was "much interested in 'earing of a nartickle in the St. James's Gazette last week, 'eaded The 'Aunt of the Otter. He 'opes the writer will next give us The Uncle of the Coolie."