Time-Work versus Piece-Work!

(By John Bull, Employer of Labour.)

Payment of Members? Well, well, I don't mind,

If Members who're worthy of payment I find.

But then all this quarrelsome cackle must cease—

If my M.P.'s I pay—like my Smiths—by the piece,

I may yet get good work; but 'twere folly, nay, crime,

To pay seven hundred praters for wasting my time!


A Man who may be said to "Know the Ropes."—M. Blondin.


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Transcriber's Note—typographical errors fixed:
exit changed to exits at the end of "A Candid Friend"
corrected a misplaced quotation mark in "Mary-Anner"
added a missing apostrophe in "Mary-Anner"
added a missing period in "The Man from Blankley's"