Figures are not what they seem!

Really, I am quite in earnest!

So would you be. Here's a goal!

Come let's have enquiry sternest.

It's too bad, upon my soul.

Here's a set of fellows borrow

Money that they can't repay,

Then buy up, till each to-morrow

Finds them deeper than to-day.

Thus my claim they'll fail in meeting,