None of your mispronounced Gallic shams, Waiter;
Call not "Potato" a "Pomme-de-terre, maîter
D'ottle." I'd rather you styled it "Pertater,"
As Britons, sure, may.
As for décor, let the linen be stainless—
Crowns of exotics are gauds for the brainless.
Crowns, indeed! Here's half-a-crown; you would gain less
Oft from a gourmet.
MRS. R. has just purchased the first two volumes of The History of the Popes (edited by F. ANTROBUS), "because," she says, "I particularly want to read about the time of the Reminiscence, with all about FIFTUS THE SIXTH and the Humorists."