Nautical Superstition.—Mr. David Jones, of the Welsh Mercantile Marine, Shipowner, proposed to call a vessel recently completed the Eisteddfod. A Saxon seaman objected to that as an unlucky name, because any ship so denominated would be sure to spring a leek.
All the Difference.
"Every Poet hates to be called 'Mr.'"—Globe.
Formality sometimes is Scorn's twin sister—
The prefix to the Poet means disaster;
But though no Bard would be addressed as "Mister,"
How they all love to be addressed as "Master!"