DINNER WITH WINE.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1860, 20 September 1913, Page 12

DINNER WITH WINE.

kast night I bought a flask of wine And 10l my fancy sought the hills Whore Frenchmen cultivate' tho vine Wliicli all tho world with rapture thrills.

Tho bottle had that Gallio tone Ayhich makes you think of peasants Oareermg up tho slopes of Beauno Or down tlio ones of Beaujolais, Or back and forth from quaint Bordeaux ! , . With quaint apparel cov nng tuem, Or in and out of Clos Vougeot, Or 'round and 'round Chateau Yquem—

Ah me I—the clustered cobwebs eoeomd To tell of musty cellars where S6me liobie marquis drank and dreamod Till forcibly hauled out of thero To meet, <vith splendid, pageantry, Tlio great King Louis-who, whoa MostTirobably .remarked: "Mar-kee, , Conduct, mo. to youi\ collarette.

But, hark! —tho waiter tows tho oorkl L gaze, enraptured, in a traiico, While everything that was ISow York , Becomes, inexplicably, Frauooj \ "Oh, wino " I cry > n ocstaev, Whv did you cver westward roam, Abandoning fair Burgundy, . Your ancient and historic liomer Whero trade flaunts not lier busy mart, Whore medieval castles thrive, Where even cabbages are Art, Where logonds sell at two for five, Whore— , , Says the wine: Forget U', pal, Mo home's in Sacramento, Cal.'' —Thomas R. Ybarra, m "Life" (Now York). ■