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;