Then turned away in a furious rage,
And shouted, “We are seven.”
The National Omnibus, November 4, 1831.
The Trustee.
(A True Story.)
The subject is that of a Trustee, who has been persuaded to accept a trust under the persuasion that as a mere trustee of property, the enjoyment of which he has nothing to do with, no liability of any kind can possibly attach to him. The simplicity with which he adheres to the impression of his being only a trustee, while suits at Law and in Equity, with their consequent costs, shower down upon him, will remind the reader of the innocent exclamation of “We are Seven!” so affectingly persisted in by the little child in the famous poem of Wordsworth.
A simple creature Gaffer Jones,
A Court he never saw;
An income adequate he owns;