Chapter C: S. CALVERLEY, Verses and Translations

Dined with Mr. (Sydney) Smith. He told me of
the motto he had proposed for Bishop Burgess's
arms, in allusion to his brother, the well-known
fish-sauce projector:

"_Gravi_ jamdudum _saucia_ curâ."

R. H. BARHAM, _Life_.

One's self-satisfaction is an untaxed kind of
property which it is very unpleasant to find
depreciated.

GEORGE ELIOT, _Middlemarch_.

"My lord cannot stand Treeby more than two days,
and Treeby cannot stand my lord for a longer
period, and that is why they are such friends."
"A sound basis of agreement," said Lord Roehampton.
"I believe absence is a great element of charm."

LORD BEACONSFIELD, _Endymion_.

_SALAD._

O cool in the summer is salad,
And warm in the winter is love;
And a poet shall sing you a ballad
Delicious thereon and thereof.
A singer I am, if no sinner,
My muse has a marvellous wing,
And I willingly worship at dinner
The Sirens of Spring.

Take Endive--like love it is bitter,
Take beet--for like love it is red,
Crisp leaf of the lettuce shall glitter,
And cress from the rivulet's bed:
Anchovies, foam-born, like the lady
Whose beauty has maddened this bard;
And olives, from groves that are shady;
And eggs--boil 'em hard.

MORTIMER COLLINS, _The British Birds_.

Query, whether churches are not dormitories of
the living as well as of the dead?

SWIFT, _Thoughts_.

The Mock Turtle said, "No wise fish would go
anywhere without a porpoise."

"Wouldn't it, really?" said Alice, in a tone of
great surprise.

"Of course not," said the Mock Turtle; "why, if a
fish came to _me_, and told me he was going a journey, I
should say, 'With what porpoise?'"

"Don't you mean 'purpose?'" said Alice.

"I mean what I say," the Mock Turtle replied, in an
offended tone.

LEWIS CARROLL, _Alice in Wonderland_.

Vill'st dou learn de Deutsche Sprache?
If a shendleman dou art,
Denn strike right indo Deutschland,
Und get a schveetes-heart.
From Schwabenland or Sachsen,
Vhere now dis writer pees;
Und de bretty girls all wachsen
Shoost like aepples on de drees.

Boot if dou bee'st a laty,
Denn, on de oder hand,
Take a blonde moustachioed lofer
In de vine green Sherman land.
Und if you shoost kit married
(Vood mit vood soon makes a vire),
You'll learn to sprechen Deutsch, mein kind,
Ash fast ash you tesire.