He jumped in silence on his mule and rode into the night.
This case, in the opinion of the members of the club,
Was much the most deserving, and the nearest to the hub;
And each allowed he’d never heard the like in all his life,
So, by general acclamation, they bestowed the prize on Fife:—
A silver-plated snuff-box, with a compass in the lid,
With the words, “If sold at auction always do as you are bid,”
Which we sent him in a hurry ere it might be understood
That this, too, was not an instance of the pure unmingled good.
And these are the proceedings of these noble-minded seeds,