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['Waiting is a good, and often a lucrative profession, which / must be freed from the hostile prejudice entertained by the / ordinary British family. On the Continent and in America there / is no such prejudice, and University men often find the / profession worth entering. ' -- Evening Paper.]
I said to George, my eldest son, / 'Now that your college days are done, / 'And high opinions you have won / 'For wisdom and discretion, / 'The time has come, as I suspect, / 'When you should ponder and reflect / 'Upon your future, and select / 'A calling or profession. ' / He answered brightly, 'Righto, pater! / 'I'd like to be a British waiter!'