[Illustration: BUTTER-DISH.

The butter may be then dished, and garnished with a wreath of parsley, if for a cheese course; if for breakfast, put it into an ornamental butter-dish, with a little water at the bottom, should the weather be very warm.

Still I felt myself unable, Though you helped to fry my fish, To endure you at my table Nestling in the butter-dish.

All the morning in another quarter men were trying on old hats and overcoats, and having the most amazing haggling over articles which are sold in London streets for a pot of ferns or a china butter-dish.