I asked him to explain.

"Well," he said, "those poets who look forward are too fond of linking

me to 'o'er'--'when it's 'o'er,' don't you know (they mean 'over').

That's a little humiliating, I always think. You wouldn't like

constantly going about with a man who'd lost his collar, would you?"

Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 148, February 3, 1915 · 第 25 / 52 题