And amongst all that crowd not a man could be found
With his shoulders so square and a physique so sound.
RICHARD ROE, THE SARDINE THIEF.
First, around on the lawyers and officers there
He defiantly gazed with a bold, brazen air;
And then, turning around, stared the Judge in the face,
As though he was the thief and the rogue in the case.
The stern Judge ran his eyes the unmoved villain o’er,
From the crown of his head to his feet on the floor—