What fruits and spices fine
Our land produces twice a year.
Thou has not such in thine."

The Cheshireman ran to his hold
And fetched a Cheshire cheese,
And said, "Look here, you dog, behold!
We have such fruits as these.
Your fruits are ripe but twice a year,
As you yourself do say,
But such as I present you here
Our land brings twice a day."

Anonymous

Let us pass on to cheese. We have some glorious cheeses, and far
too few people glorying in them. The Cheddar of the inn, of the
chophouse, of the average English home, is a libel on a thing
which, when authentic, is worthy of great honor. Cheshire,
divinely commanded into existence as to three parts to precede
and as to one part to accompany certain Tawny Ports and some
Late-Bottled Ports, can be a thing for which the British Navy
ought to fire a salute on the principle on which Colonel Brisson
made his regiment salute when passing the great Burgundian
vineyard.

T. Earle Welby,

IN "THE DINNER KNELL"