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Lord Bilton
Lord Bilton, though he only wrote for fun, Commanded higher prices than his son, The Honourable Peter Brocklehurst, Who wrote because he had to write or burst. This grave injustice preyed on Peter's mind, And every now and then he felt inclined, Being the heir, of course, and only son, To shoot the Earl of Bilton with a gun.
One day this dreadful thought of his matured. .04
He wrote three thousand words, and so procured A sum of money just enough to buy A Browning .307 (Series Y), Which pointing at his father's head, he missed
That rich and eminent Philanthropist. tit His father therefore had him put away
In Colney Hatch, and there he pines today,
Regretting bitterly, as who would not, 4 His parricidal (and abortive) shot.
Moral: This teaches us to wait till we receive
In natural course what Father has to leave.
Hilaire Belloc
This poem is included as the postscript of a letter written by Hilaire Belloc to Maurice Baring in 1911.
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