Stick to the Novel-Writing, William

[jhall1]

I found this in a review by Harry Mount of Yasmin Alibhai-Brown's Exotic England: the Making of a Curious Nation:

"She has unearthed a lovely nugget from Thackeray, in the first-known English ode to curry, a wonderfully terrible poem:

What next my dextrous little girl will do

Comments

[loganberrybunny]

Another William (McGonagall) would have been proud of that one!

[jhall1]

Yep. :)