And as for their little Bill (who paid it?)

It’s being examined by a Com-mit-tee

When next they want Lighthouse Commissioners

To examine the Scottish Coast, N.B.

Of candidates what crowds there’ll be!!

Punch. March 5, 1887.

A most exorbitant charge was made for the dinners and refreshments provided for these Commissioners.

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Thackeray’s Burlesque Analysis of the
Sorrows of Werther.

Werther had a love for Charlotte