On one occasion a rhymster, who had placed before him a supper small in quantity and poor in quality, invoked a blessing with the following lines:-- "O Thou who bless'd the loaves and fishes Look down upon these two poor dishes; And though the 'tatoes be but small, Lord make them large enough for all; For if they do our bellies fill, 'Twill be a wondrous miracle." This reminds us of an epigram entitled "Dress v. Dinner:"-- What is the reason, can you guess, Why men are poor, and women thinner? So much do they for dinner dress, There's nothing left to dress for dinner. On a graceless peer an epigrammatist wrote:-- "'By proxy I pray, and by proxy I vote,' A graceless peer said to a churchman of note; Who answered,'My lord, then I venture to say, You'll to heaven ascend in a similar way.'" Here is a grateful grace:-- "Some hae meat that canna eat, An' some cou'd eat that want it; But we hae meat, an' we can eat, Sae let the Lord be thankit." The Rev. Samuel Wesley, formerly vicar of Epworth, and another friend were entertained to dinner at Temple Belwood, by a host noted as a strange compound of avarice and oddity. Mr. Wesley returned thanks with the following impromptu lines:-- "Thanks for the feast, for 'tis no less Than eating manna in the wilderness, Here meagre famine bears controlless sway, And ever drives each fainting wretch away. Yet here, O how beyond a saint's belief, We've seen the glories of a chine of beef; Here chimneys smoke, which never smoked before, And we have dined, where we shall dine no more." In conclusion we give a vegetarian grace. The first four lines are to be said before the meal:-- "These fruits do Thou, O Father, bless, Which Mother Earth to us doth give; No blood doth stain our feast to day, In Thee we trust, and peaceful live." The next is a form of thanksgiving after a vegetarian meal:-- "We thank Thee, Lord, for these Thy fruits, Which Mother Earth to us doth give; No blood hath stained our feast to-day, In Thee we trust, and peaceful live!" Poetry on Panes. In a variety of places, but more especially in old village inns, reflections in verse, good, bad, and indifferent, have been found scratched upon window-panes. We have carefully copied the best examples which have come under our notice, and present a batch herewith, believing that they may entertain our readers. A genial old Yorkshire parson appears at the commencement of the present century to have been greatly pleased with an inn situated between Northallerton and Boroughbridge, for he visited it daily to enjoy his pipe and glass. On one of its window-panes he inscribed some lines, of which the following is a literal copy:--