How Tennyson Asked For An Apple

Mr. Sherard adds that his fatfcëf used to teil him that when he was k boy he onoe met Tennyson at a dinner party and that he was very frightened at his appearance. "Tennyson was at that time very sallow - almost yellow - and had long, black hair. At desert the poet bent across the table and addreösed my father, in front of whom he placed a dish of fruit and said: 'Evolve me an apple.' 'I did not know what he vvanted me to do ,' said my father." -