Chorus.—’Tis for this clerk, our strong right hand, we make our clients pay,
He costs us not one penny-piece, his stipend they defray;
So as you see, our trickiness is rather over par;
We are a grasping family—we are! we are! we are!
The Successful M.P.-Q.C. sings.
We take more work than we can do, and know it at the time;
But if a client’s case fall through, we don’t think that a crime!
For though his all he may have lost by our insatiate greed,
He cannot sue us for the cost, so what care we, indeed?
Besides, when we’ve received more briefs than we can ever read,