THE PERFECT GUEST."
[To mais Enema OP THE " &EVERTOR."] SIR,—Perhaps you may think the attached lines, describing " The Perfect Guest," worthy of being printed in the Spec- tator. I do not know who the author of thorn is; they were seat to me by a friend a few years ago.—I am, Sir, Ac.,
" Tee Pawnor Guess.
She answered, by return of post, The invitation of lierthost; She caught the train .she said she would, And changed at junctions as she should; She brought a small and lightish box, And keys belonging to the lochs.
Food, rare and rich, she did not beg, But ate the boiled, or scrambled, egg; When offered lukewarm tea, she drank it, And did not crave an extra blanket, Nor extra pillows for her head;— She seemed to like the spare room bed.
She brought her own self-filling pen, And always went to bed at ten.
She left no little things behind,
But stories new and gossip kind."
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