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.