To buy and sell—to drive a trade—’

Said Paul ‘I cannot change the date.

On May the Fourth it must be paid.’

‘Well, well!’ said Peter, with a sigh.

‘Hand me the cash, and I will go.

I’ll form a Joint-Stock Company,

And turn an honest pound or so.’

‘I’m grieved,’ said Paul, ‘to seem unkind:

The money shall of course be lent:

But, for a week or two, I find