Shook hands, and were as good friends as before.
“Say,” cries the losing client, “how came you
Two be such friends who were such foes just now?”
“Thou fool,” one answers, “lawyers, though so keen,
Like shears, ne’er cut themselves, but what’s between.”
Jenner’s Quacks
Jenner was much given to versification. On one occasion he sent a brace of ducks, with the following lines, to Lady Morgan:
I’ve despatched, my dear madame, this scrap of a letter
To say that Miss Charlotte is very much better
A regular doctor no longer she lacks,