BOUILLABAISSE.

[There has been some correspondence lately about Bouillabaisse, and a writer in the Evening News (who misquotes THACKERAY) actually gives a recipe without oil!]

Our THACKERAY in ancient days,

Wrote of a very famous dish,

And said in stanzas in its praise,

'Twas made of several kinds of fish.

A savoury stew it is indeed,

And he's "in comfortable case"

Who finds before him at his need