From eleven till four each day.

“Committees here, Committees there,

Committees all around;

While counsel roared, and joked, and bored,

And fought, and fumed, and frowned.

“Ten guas. per day, and ten briefs alway,

Unto my share there came;

One half, I knew, I could not do,

But I took them all the same.

“And I grew rich, and behaved as sich,