Melon Glacé. Hors d'œuvre de Choix. Tortue Claire. Truite de Rivière au bleu, Beurre fondu. Pommes nature. Poularde du Mans Favorite. Médaillon de Bœuf Rossini. Spoom au Kummel. Caille de Vigne sur Croustade. Salade Romaine. Asperges nouvelles, Sauce Maltaise. Fraises à la Zouave. Corbeille de Friandises. Pailles au Parmesan. Dessert. Café. VINS. Punch. Johannisberger, 1900. Chas. Heidsieck, 1904. Moët et Chandon, 1904. Château Branaire Ducru, 1900. Dow's 1890 Port. Courvoisier's 1831 Brandy. The menu, according to custom immemorial, is decorated with the crests of the regiment, with the date of its raising, 1572, and with a little picture of the uniform of the regiment in the year 1684, when the full privates wore black boy-scout hats, bands such as barristers still wear, and coats with very long skirts. Twenty years ago no regimental dinner could have been held without interminable speeches, which were sometimes listened to with scant patience by the subalterns, who wanted to get to the Empire or the Alhambra before the performance ended. Nowadays there are no speeches, at all events at our dinner, and the only toast proposed is that of "The King." After this loyal toast has been drunk and the cigars lighted, all formality vanishes, every man moves from his place and goes to talk to those of his old friends who have been out of earshot during dinner; the subalterns make inquiries as to whether the Cabaret Club or the Four Hundred Club is the most amusing place in which to keep awake after all the restaurants are shut, and as eleven o'clock comes some of the guests go off to the Service clubs, some have to catch last trains, and the commissionaire downstairs has a busy time whistling for taxis.