'ARRY IN ANCIENT ROME.—IDEM ANGLICt.
"CitosimonA tlicebat, si quando commoda vellet Dicere, et binsidlas Arrius Inoidlao : Et tuns mirIfice sperabat as ease locutum, Cum quantum poterat dixerat hinsIdias. Credo, sic water, sl Llber avunculus ejus, Sic maternus arm dIterat atque aria.
Hoe miss° In Syriam requierant omnibus aures, Autlibant eadem baee leniter et !eviler; Nee sIbi postilla metuebant talla verba, Cum subito adfertur nuntlus Ionios fluctus, postquam Hine Arrlus Isset, Jam non Ionios ease, sed Hionlos."
CATIILLTIS.
WHEN 'Arty his wife would address by her name To his lips 'twas not Ellen, bat Helen, that came, And such sounds as hinfernal, or horfril, or heye, Oft assailed our poor ears as our 'Arry went by. He thought, too, his language was that of his betters When he'd added with all his lung power these letters. Thus no doubt from his great-great-great-grandfather each Of his ancestors downwards I ad garnished his speech. Well ! our ears, when he out to the Soudan was called, No more with superfluous aitches were galled, And we hoped that our sufferings linguistic were over Now there rolled in between us the kind Straits of Dover; Till one day the news round the tea-tables rung : 'Arry'd only his domicile changed, not his tongue ; That in Egypt, the country of mummies and scarabs, The Arabs were Arabs no longer, but Harabs.
C. T. CAMPION.
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