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"SheAnd makes standmeupon sing,a • rounded Too-whit,stick, too-wee! ' And always introduces me To every one as • Pretty Dick! '" "Oh, dear," said weeping BAINES CAREW, "I'm'• This grieved," is thesaid direst BACK;, case" Iatknow paining "— you— To Сони and Polterthwaite I'll go. "To COBB'S cold calculating ear My gruesome sorrows I'll impart." "No; stop," said BAISES, " I'll dry my tear, And steel my sympathetic heart!" •• SheRewarding makes meme perch withupon a tree,! ' And threatens to exhibit me With four or five performing mice." •• Restrain my tears I wish I could" (Said BAINES) " I don't know what to do." Said CAPTAIN BAGO, " You're very good." "Oh, not at all," said BAINES CAREW. "She makes me fire a gun." said BAGC;; "And at a preconcerted word. Climb up a ladder with a flag. Like any street-performing bird. '• She places sugar in my way,— In public places calls me ' Sweet! ' She gives me groundsel every day, And hard canary seed to eat." "Oh, woe! oh, sad! oh. dire to tell!" (Said BAINES), •' Be good enough to stop." And senseless on the floor he fell With unpremeditated flop. f
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Said CAPTAIN BAGG, " Well, really I Am grieved to think it pains you so, I thank you for your sympathy; But hang it—come— I say, you know!" But BAINES lay flat upon the floor, Convulsed with sympathetic sob —• The Captain toddled off next door, And gave the case to MR. Совв.

Here, then "the wheel has come full circle." Where the poets of a century ago saw more greed and villainy the modern seer descries a perfect exemplification of the gen erous qualities, carefully graduated from the delicate sensibility of Mr. Carew, to the robust helpfulness of Mr. Cobb, and the unassuming but serviceable virtues of Mr. Polterthwaite. An anomymous singer has gone even farther and pictured the solicitor (as in fact he is) not the oppressor, but the victim of his clients. There was a young lady of Ci'cester, Who went to consult her solicitor, When he asked for his fee, She said " Fiddle-de-dee, I only looked in as a visitor."

So the truth prevails, and at last the attor ney's virtues are recognized. True this has happened only when Parliament is busy de priving him of his livelihood; but at least truth has prevailed, and doubtless soon from the Bodley Head will proceed a six-and-eight penny Garland for its fuller utterance.