Wrapped some pocket-money in it—what we thought would easy do him—
And appointed me committee-man, to go and take it to him.
I found him in his study, looking rather worse than ever;
And told him ’twas decided that his flock and he should sever.
Then his eyes grew big with wonder, and it seemed almost to blind ’em,
And some tears looked out o’ window, with some others close behind ’em!
But I handed him the ticket, with a little bow of deference,
And he studied quite a little ere he got the proper reference,
And then the tears that waited—great unmanageable creatures—
Let themselves quite out o’ window, and came climbing down his features.