6 NOVEMBER 1915, Page 26

RHYME.

[To TEE EDITOR OF THE "SrecrAron."1 SIR,—Several of your correspondents have written lately about rhymes to difficult words. One quoted in the Spectator of October 16th about "the curate of Kidderminster, who chid a spinster" is hard to beat. But nobody has quoted the well- known instance of the rhymester who was dared to find a rhyme for "Atkinson"; and who replied at once '" A tie() with all its catkins on Was planted by Miss Atkinson."