A HOME TRUTH.
Host (sotto voce). "Is this the best Claret, Mary?"
Mary (audibly). "It's the best you've got, Sir!"
"MEAT! MEAT!"
["We do not profess to assault every fortress and monopoly at the same moment. If we did we should get well thrashed for our pains. We take them one by one.... It must be left to those who have the responsibility of determining what is to be done, when it is to be done, and how it is to be done."—Sir William Harcourt at Derby.]
Much-worried Cat's-meat Merchant loquitur:—
Confound the cats and drat the dogs! Sc-a-a-t, Mungo! Down, Grimalkin!
Ye jest carn't be all sarved at onst, an' so 'taint no use talkin'.
I've lots o' stuff, ah! quite enough to give ye all yer dinners,