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None of your mispronounced Gallic shams, Waiter;
Call not "Potato" a "_Pomme-de-terre, maîter_
_D'ottle_." I'd rather you styled it "Pertater,"
As Britons, sure, may.
As for _décor_, let the linen be stainless--
Crowns of exotics are gauds for the brainless.
_Crowns_, indeed! Here's half-a-crown; you would gain less
Oft from a _gourmet_.
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MRS. R. has just purchased the first two volumes of _The History
of the Popes_ (edited by F. ANTROBUS), "because," she says, "I
particularly want to read about the time of the Reminiscence, with all
about FIFTUS THE SIXTH and the Humorists."
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SERIOUS CASE.--A patient who doesn't want it known that there's
anything the matter with him, has placed himself under the care of Dr.
ROBSON ROOSETEM PASHA, "because," he says, "his visits then are 'sub
Roose-ah!'" [Now we know what's the matter with him.--ED.]
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