EPIGRAM.

John Hobbs, partridge-snaring, was dragged to the 'Squire,

The Magistrate flamed, but the statute hung fire.

"Burns states," says the Clerk, "that tread-mill will do,

For two months, if the culprit's convicted by two."

"Two months and two magistrates: I sit alone.

Well, Clerk, we must halve it—commit him for one."