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The Bills.
(An apology for which Punch is proud to owe to Edgar Poe.)
I.
See the ever-swelling bills—
Heavy bills!
What a world of botherment Sir Stafford’s bosom fills!
How they tumble, tumble, tumble
In, to his extreme affright!
While the nation ’gins to grumble
At the wild financial jumble,