He
should therefore like to add, not for the purpose of holding
himself up as an example, that, during his entire interest in
sports of all kinds, he had never made a bet.]
Ah! these are days when Recklessness, bereft of ready cash,
Will strive to remedy the void by speculative splash;
It is a salutary sight for Bankruptcy and Debt--
Our good Attorney-General who never made a bet.
His interest in manly sports, an interest immense,
Was ne'er degraded to a mere "pecuniary sense;"
His boyhood's love of marbles leaves him nothing to regret--
Our good Attorney-General who never made a bet.
Next, when a youth, the cricket-bat he first began to wield,
And "Heads or Tails?" re-echoed for the Innings through the field.
He sternly scorned to toss the coin, howe'er his friends might fret--
Our good Attorney-General who never made a bet.
And when, an Undergraduate, he swiftly skimmed his mile,
And comrades staked with confidence on him their little pile,
He'd beg them not on his account in gambling ways to get--
This good Attorney-General who never made a bet.
To play for money ruins whist: and seldom can his Club
Persuade him to put counters (coins for Zulus!) on the rub;
He _has_ been known for lozenges to dabble with piquet;
He wasn't Chief Attorney then, nor was it _quite_ a bet.
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