Here are countless other bills―― Sundry bills! Of which the reckoning up is like climbing up high hills! Now I tremble with affright On my lawyer’s to alight, With its endless six and eightpences All shown; And the doctors, though one line, To bad language doth incline, Or a groan; Whilst the tailor――oh, the tailor! Was he ever found to fail, or Ever known Not to pile up useless details In the manner to him prone; “Fancy twill’d,” and “double mill’d,” “Blue Elysian,” “braided,” “drill’d,” Till each garment that he retails Is described in terms high flown. Then there are bills, of course, Sent by tradesmen, who, perforce,―― (Without doubt); Of American sirloins sold as Scotch beef superfine, Of suet charged but never sent, of fat skewer’d on the chine; Of rump steak at one-and-nine, And of “rounds” so steep’d in brine, That, spite resolute endeavour, One could eat it never, never! Nor anyhow the salt boil out. Oh these bills, bills, bills, Writ with skewers ’stead of quills―― They recall Prices always going higher, Though at Newgate ’twould transpire Often meat had had a most decided fall. Yes, there’s scarce a line that shows Joints overweighted, Price o’erstated, As one by experience knows. Yet the whole with hope one fills, Co-operation Through the nation Soon will empty butchers’ tills; Or at least bring down the prices they are charging in their bills―― With under-dash―― _Must_ make up by _Tuesday week_ Such a sum; so from you seek Cash! To assist them with _their_ bills, And here, too, like bitter pills, Come the long-forgotten bills―― Accounts one fancied settled, Till by them, newly nettled, All the air with cries one fills, Making moan, moan, moan, In a muffled monotone, At the checking of the bills―― Of the bills! Making moan, moan, moan, In the same old monotone, At the reckoning of the bills! Of the bills, bills, bills, At the checking, the reck’ning of the bills. With a deep and final groan, At the bother of the bills, Of the bills, bills, bills, At the pother of the bills, Of the bills, bills, bills, bills, Bills, bills, bills, At the bother, and the pother of the bills.