Kitchener And Colman
THE most celebrated wits and bon vivants of the day graced the
dinner-table of the late Dr. Kitchener, and, inter alia, the late
George Colman, who was an especial favorite; his interpolation of a
little monosyllable in a written admonition which the Doctor caused to
be placed on the mantlepiece of the dining parlor will never be
forgotten, and was the origin of such a drinking bout as was seldom
permitted under his roof. The caution ran thus: Come at seven, go at
eleven. Colman briefly altered the sense of it; for, upon the Doctor's
attention being directed to the card, he read, to his astonishment,
Come at seven, go it at eleven! which the guests did, and the claret
was punished accordingly.