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The Barrister's Dream	A
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They sought it with thimbles they sought it with care	B
They pursued it with forks and hope	C
They threatened its life with a railway share	B
They charmed it with smiles and soap	C
But the Barrister weary of proving in vain	D
That the Beaver's lace making was wrong	E
Fell asleep and in dreams saw the creature quite plain	D
That his fancy had dwelt on so long	E
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He dreamed that he stood in a shadowy Court	F
Where the Snark with a glass in its eye	G
Dressed in gown bands and wig was defending a pig	H
On the charge of deserting its sty	G
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The Witnesses proved without error or flaw	I
That the sty was deserted when found	J
And the Judge kept explaining the state of the law	I
In a soft under current of sound	J
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The indictment had never been clearly expressed	K
And it seemed that the Snark had begun	L
And had spoken three hours before any one guessed	K
What the pig was supposed to have done	L
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The Jury had each formed a different view	M
Long before the indictment was read	N
And they all spoke at once so that none of them knew	M
One word that the others had said	N
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You must know said the Judge but the Snark exclaimed Fudge	O
That statute is obsolete quite	P
Let me tell you my friends the whole question depends	Q
On an ancient manorial right	P
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In the matter of Treason the pig would appear	R
To have aided but scarcely abetted	S
While the charge of Insolvency fails it is clear	R
If you grant the plea 'never indebted'	S
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The fact of Desertion I will not dispute	S
But its guilt as I trust is removed	S
So far as relates to the costs of this suit	S
By the Alibi which has been proved	S
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My poor client's fate now depends on your votes	T
Here the speaker sat down in his place	U
And directed the Judge to refer to his notes	T
And briefly to sum up the case	U
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But the Judge said he never had summed up before	V
So the Snark undertook it instead	S
And summed it so well that it came to far more	V
Than the Witnesses ever had said	S
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When the verdict was called for the Jury declined	S
As the word was so puzzling to spell	W
But they ventured to hope that the Snark wouldn't mind	S
Undertaking that duty as well	W
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So the Snark found the verdict although as it owned	S
It was spent with the toils of the day	S
When it said the word GUILTY the Jury all groaned	S
And some of them fainted away	S
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Then the Snark pronounced sentence the Judge being quite	S
Too nervous to utter a word	S
When it rose to its feet there was silence like night	S
And the fall of a pin might be heard	S
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Transportation for life was the sentence it gave	X
And then to be fined forty pound	S
The Jury all cheered though the Judge said he feared	S
That the phrase was not legally sound	S
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But their wild exultation was suddenly checked	S
When the jailer informed them with tears	Y
Such a sentence would not have the slightest effect	S
As the pig had been dead for some years	Z
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The Judge left the Court looking deeply disgusted	S
But the Snark though a little aghast	S
As the lawyer to whom the defence was intrusted	S
Went bellowing on to the last	S
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Thus the Barrister dreamed while the bellowing seemed	S
To grow every moment more clear	R
Till he woke to the knell of a furious bell	W
Which the Bellman rang close at his ear	A2

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