_Mal à la tête_, _ennui_, _migraine_,
We risk in trying to explain
Why, though the Income-tax is high,
This country never can supply
Such galleries as line the Seine.
Yet gifts are treated with disdain,
Which gives the would-be donors pain,--
We've now a name to call _that_ by,
"_Mal à la_ TATE."
Next time an offer's made in vain
MACNEILL, or someone, will obtain,
Or ask, at least, the reason why,
And even dumber folks will cry,
"By Jove! they've made a mull again,
MULL _à la_ TATE!"
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