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• When I, good friends, was called to the bar,
• I'd an appetite fresh and hearty,
• But I was, as many young barristers are,
• An impecunious party.
• "Then what became of her?"
• "Her? Which 'her'? The park is full of 'hers.'"
• "The lady with the green feathers in her hat. A big Gainsborough hat. I am quite sure it was Miss Hartuff."
• "Not improbably. I presume she does sometimes take the air. And possibly she may be the happy owner of a Gainsborough hat with green feathers."
• "Don't be frivolous, please. She was in that victoria."
• "Then perhaps she was too impecunious to drive both ways."
• [I]t would be a simple matter, sir, to find some impecunious author who would be glad to do the actual composition of the volume for a small fee.