The man who got most out of him was the head waiter to whom (this should go into the minute-which he expresses surprise, thankfulness, indignation, delight, grief. He also asks quest ith it, and he has a T never saw a-man more interested in our Burns dinner programme. It is illustrated, and the artists should be told how he examined their handiwork. Again and again he seized the programme to have another look at it. He tried the jctures at a distance and close to im, and read the letter-press beneath with as much affection as if it cured everything.
Round the room his eyes would wander, then back to the programme scuttled, like a mouse to its hole.
He proposed the toast of the Queen in those words.
He had to call upon the various speakers and singers, and as soon as he had uttered their names, he fell back with the recoil.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.