A SCOTTISH BILL OF FARE.

Te Aroha News, Volume II, Issue 82, 27 December 1884, Page 4

A SCOTTISH BILL OF FARE.

Tute annual supper of the Canterbury Caledonian Society to commemorate St. Androw's Day and the return of the President from his visit to the Old Country was held at Arenas, Cafe, Christchurch, on 4th December, and attended by about eighty members of the Society. The chair was occupied by the Vice-President, Mr H. A. Watt, who had seated at his right hand the guest of the evening, Mr Cunningham, and at his left Captain Kidley, of the Coptic. Mr Campbell, also a Vice-President &nd Dr. Stewart were the Vice-Chairmen. At the head of the room the Scottish Standard was unfurled, on the table near the Chairman was the large silver challenge cup presented by Messrs Hillcoat and Co. , and among those present were several I members in costume. The bill o' fare was headed with the grace— " Some hue meat an' canna cat, An 1 sonic wad oat that want it ; But we hae meat, and we can oat, An' sac the Lord bo thankit." First was "A hue o' Hillcoat 1 s best,' which of course meant whisky, followed by "Saumon troots wi butter bree") " Noo safe the statoly saumont sail, An' troots bedropped wi crimson hail." And "Ac we drappie o' Milton-Duff." The "first coorse" comprised "Nowtes' feet, | tripe an' ingans, pottit heid, minced collops iwi a vsrheen ama peas ;" second coorse, "Howtowdies bakit in an ashefc ; jigot o' mutton wi'curran'jeelie." The third coorse consisted of the haggis, the dish of the evening, which was ushered in by the piper, the lines selected for it reading— *' Ye pow'rs wha mak mankind ycre care An' dish them out thoir bill o' fare, Auld Scotland wants nac skinking ware That jaups in luggica ; But if ye wish her scratof v' pray'r, Qio her a haggis." This coorse was succeeded by " a half mutchkin amang four," and there were also 41 tawties biled, chappit, and stoved, bashed nees, and green kail syne end up' wi cheese, ait-farles, sybpes, an' ither green meat, and then a houpie o* Hillcoat's."

Probably one of the most trying times in a man's life is when he introduces his second wife, 17 years old, to his eldest daughter, who is past twenty*