DIPLOMACY.
(Yawning, though rude, is, according to the doctors, an extremely healthy exercise.)
I have a friend who wrote a book
And begged me to peruse it,
And bluntly state the view I took—
Encourage or abuse it.
I want, he said, the truth alone,
But said it in a hopeful tone.
Perceiving there was no escape,
With Chapter I. I led off;