Legal star, you shut your eye,

We, and Hawkins, wonder why.

The P. P. answers:—

My blessings, friend, are over-estimated;

You ask me plainly, why I was created;

I’ll tell you straight, and stop your flippant raillery:

I was appointed——

The Public:—Well?

The P. P.:—To draw my salary.

The Referee. December 2, 1882.