As a certificate of your intention to be punctual, you may send your
friends, a similar billet to the following:--
My dear Sir,
The honour of your company is requested to dine with ---- on _Fry_day,
1828.
The favour of a positive answer is requested, or the proffered plate
will be appropriated as it was when--
_Sir Ill-bred Ignorance_ returned the following answer:--"I shall be
quite happy to come if I possibly can." Such words the committee voted
were equivalent to these--I'll come, if in the mean time I am not
invited to a party that I like better.--_Dr. Kitchiner_.
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