Appended to the toast of “The Hull Burns’ Club” are the noble lines:—
“It’s coming yet, for a’ that,
That man to man, the warld o’er,
Shall brithers be for a’ that.”
“The Visitors,” “Kindred Societies,” are included with suitable quotations. The verse under the toast of “The Press” is a happy selection:—
“Here’s freedom to him that wad read,
Here’s freedom to him that wad write,
There’s nane ever feared that the truth should be heard,
But they whom the truth would indite.”
We have seen the following quoted several times with this toast:—
“A chiel’s amang you takin’ notes,
And faith he’ll prent it.”
The concluding toast, that of “The Lassies,” has the familiar lines:—
“The wisest man the warl’ e’er saw,
He dearly loved the lassies, O!”
At a dinner of the Hull Literary Club the toast list was enriched with quotations from the works of the Poet Laureate. An excerpt from The Princess on the first page says:—
“Hark the bell
For dinner, let us go!”