And Now By Your Leave I Will Try To Expound It, In Truth As It Is And The Way That I Found It. My Dinner, Sometimes, Like Things Transcendental And Things More Substantial, Like Women And Wine A Thing Is, Uncertain, And Quite Accidental, And Sometimes I Wonder, "Oh! Where Shall I Dine?" It Was When Reflecting One Evening Of Late, What Tavern Or Hotel Or Dining-Room Skinner, With Table Cloth Dirty And Dirtier Plate, Would Give Me A Nausea And Call It A Dinner, I Met With Jack Merdle, A Name Fully Known As Good For A Million In Stock-Gamblers' Street, Where None But A Nabob Or Forger High Flown With "Bulls" Or With "Bears" Need Look For A Seat.