The whole affair was but a swindle,

And down to discount soon would dwindle.

And, truth to say, the Bear was right,

The Panic came, like Lillywhite,

That terror of the Lords, and bowl'd out

Ev'ry man Jack who hadn't sold out;

So that there was on "settling day,"

The Devil and the Bear to pay.

"But," says the Stag, "that cunning buffer,

The Bull, will be the chap to suffer;