As To Roasting

This poem (no author given) is taken directly from the book, "The Complete Cook Book" by Janie Day Rees. Published in New York by Street & Smith, circa 1900. There was not much left of this book when it came into my possession. I am considering placing these poems and recipes here to be a 'rescue mission.'

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As To Roasting.

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He had traveled miles from the British Isles

To study our savage types,

And he heaved a sigh as he cocked his eye

At our glorious Stars and Strips.

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And he shook his head as he slowly said,

"the idea is downright low;

At the very best your flag suggests,

Well - gridirons, don't you know."

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Then a Gotham maid, who was not afraid

Of his lordship, raised her head,

And her eyes gleamed bright with a cutting light,

But she ever so calmly said:

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Why, of course; that's due to your point of view,

For I judge you were thinking then

Of its old-time use, when it cooked your goose,

And roasted you Englishmen."