"Can't we adopt a house rule that poets must not be inspired between the hours of 11 A.M.and 5 P.M., or in the evening after eight; that any poet discovered using more than five arm-chairs in the composition of a quatrain will be charged two oboli an hour for each chair in excess of that number; and that the billiard-marker shall be required to charge a premium of three times the ordinary fee for tables used by versifiers in lieu of writing-pads ?" "That wouldn't be a bad idea," said Sir Walter Raleigh.

"I, as a poet would not object to that.

I do all my work at home, anyhow." "There's another phase of this business that we haven't considered yet, and it's rather important," said Demosthenes, taking a fresh pebble out of his bonbonniere.

"That's in the matter of stationery.

This club, like all other well-regulated clubs, provides its members with a suitable supply of writing materials.