Every child has a father,--one father at least,--as the great Conde says very well in his poem." PISISTRATUS.--"The great Conde a poet! I never heard that before." MR.

CANTON.--"I don't say he was a poet, but he sent a poem to Madame de Montansier.

Envious critics think that he must have paid somebody else to write it; but there is no reason why a great captain should not write a poem,--I don't say a good poem, but a poem.

I wonder, Roland, if the duke ever tried his hand at 'Stanzas to Mary,' or 'Lines to a Sleeping Babe.'" CAPTAIN ROLAND.--"Austin, I'm ashamed of you.

Of course the duke could write poetry if he pleased,--something, I dare say, in the way of the great Conde; that is, something warlike and heroic, I'll be bound.