True record, blent with critic strictures,

And culture of the artist touch

Through half a century of pictures.

We wish you many gay returns

Of this May day! You're brighter, plumper

Than then; and Punch, who envy spurns,

Drinks your Good Health, Ma'am, in a bumper!


"ORME! SWEET ORME!"—Orme is still off solid food, and is kept alive entirely by Porter. It is the opinion of the best informed that "Porter with a head on" will pull him through. Smoking is not permitted in the stable, but there is evidence of there being several "strong backers" about.