We are a grasping family—we are! we are! we are!
The Popular Common-Law Barrister sings.
We never ask for any fees, oh! no, we’ve too much pride;
But we’ve a clerk who always sees our briefs have cheques inside;
Who duns attorneys when they shirk refreshers to renew—
In short, does all the dirty work we’d rather die than do.
If any scandal should arise, quite safe is our fair fame;
We just repudiate his acts, and he gets all the blame;
But he is quite prepared for this, and knows his place ’twill cost
If, through some squeamishness of his, a fee is ever lost.