If we're late down to breakfast, he snorts at us.

He worries our lives out with pic-nics and shoots,

And will flourish his Clarets and Ports at us.

My wife likes her ease and her breakfast in bed;

I hate cellar-swagger and scurry.

Entertainment indeed! We're as lumpish as lead

When we're not on the whirl or the worry.

But turn out to-morrow, my BLOGGS? No, not me,

Though I know what your "little hints" signify.

Your "dear DICK" forsooth! Such a noodle as he