Your MELISSA.


THE LAST-STRAW.

I don't agree with grousing, and I trust I shall escape any

Desire to pick a quarrel with an egg at fivepence ha'penny;

I'm quite prepared to recognise that no persuasive charm'll aid

In getting from a grocer either cheese or jam or marmalade;

I brave the brackish bacon and refrain from ever uttering

Complaints about the margarine that on my bread I'm buttering;

I'm not unduly bored with CHARLIE CHAPLIN on the cinema