KNIGHT AND DREDGE, CASTLE-STREET; THE ETONIAN. N. VI. The King of Clubs. SCENE-THE CLUB-ROOM. THE PRESIDENT PROLOGUIZES FROM THE CHAIR. I LOVE Variety; no Book From me obtains a second look, Who speaks one word of Prose to-night. (Members testify astonishment. O'Connor opens his mouth wide-Musgrave shuts his close-Lozell nods with assent-Burton with drowsiness.-Oakley takes out his tablets, and appears to be working hard.) Montgomery. "I love to hear a clever rhymer rhyming Golightly. Montgomery. Golightly. Sterling. Courtenay. In learned measure, eloquent and strong! "I love to hear a faulty timer timing " His horrid cadence, dissonant and wrong!" And, when a fool is sentimentalizing," O'Connor. Chorus. O'Connor. Swinburne. Oakley. Nesbit. Chorus. BRAMBLES OF DISPRAISE; Which, when the precious leaves we snatch, Inflict a most delightful scratch; A Fourth-form' thinks 'tis best by far Our Muse goes limping on a patten, Sed intellectum fero." "Order! order! a Bull, a Bull!" "I'd knock you down, but my mouth is full." "I differ." "Some beer." "Silence! hark to the Chairman!"-( Hear ! ) * I've written and spoke till it aches; BEEF STEAKS. "I love a steak!-proudly it sweeps along; Whether the kitchen broileth it or frieth, I wish that I could rhyme like him of old, * “ Silence! Mark to the signal!—fire.”—B▼RON. Courtenay. Rowley. |