A LAY SERMON.

(Suggested by certain recent manifestations of the Nonconformist conscience.)

Thou shalt not steal! That's a command

Which grips us with an iron hand;

And "he who prigs what isn't his'n,

When he is cotched shall go to prison!"

So runs the Cockney doggerel, clear

If ungrammatical, austere,

With not a saving clause to qualify