Q. Would this transaction be amusing?

A. Yes, to everyone but the friend.


Time-Work versus Piece-Work!

(By John Bull, Employer of Labour.)

Payment of Members? Well, well, I don't mind,

If Members who're worthy of payment I find.

But then all this quarrelsome cackle must cease—

If my M.P.'s I pay—like my Smiths—by the piece,

I may yet get good work; but 'twere folly, nay, crime,