THE RECTOR AND HIS CURATE, OR "ONE POUND TWO."
[From the Times.] .• I trust we shall part, as we met. in peace and charity. My last payment to you paid your vainly up to the hat of this mouth. Since that, I owe you for one month which being a long month of thirty-one days, amounts. as near us I can calculate, ts six pounds eight shillings. My steward returns you as a debtor to the amount of sere pounds ten Wilkefor eimaere ground ; which leaves some trilling balance in my favour.' —Letter if Dismissal front the Reverend Marcus Beresfurd to his Curate, the Reverend T. r. Lyons.
The account is balanced, the bill drawn out; The debit and credit all right, no doubt : The Rector, rolling in wealth and state, Owes to his Curate six pound eight; The Curate, most tided of men, Owes to his Rector sea-en pound ten ;
Which makes the balance, clearly due
From Curate to Rector, one pound two.
Ale balance, on earth unfair, uneven !
But sure to be all set right in heaven,
Where hills like this will be (deeded, some day, And the balance settled the other way :
Where Lyons the Curate's hard-wrung seen Will hack to his shade with interest come;
And Marcus the Rector deep may roe This tot., in his favour, of one pound two.
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