A flash of red, then one of blue, At last, like lighthouse, came in view; Bunce rang the nightbell; wiped his highlows muddy; His errand told; the sack produced; And by a sleepy boy was introduced To Dr. Oddy, writing in his study The bargain did not take long time to settle, “Ten pounds, Odd zounds! How well it sounds, Ten pounds,” Chink’d into Bunce’s palm in solid metal. With joy half-crazed, It seem’d some trick of sense, some airy gammon, He gazed and gazed, At last, possess’d with the old lust of Mammon, Thought he, “With what a very little trouble, This little capital I now might double----” Another scuffle of its usual brevity,-- And Doctor Oddy, in his suit of black, Was finishing, within the sack, His “Thoughts upon Longevity!” The trick was done. Without a doubt, The sleepy boy let Bunce and burthen out; Who coming to a lone convenient place, The body stripp’d; hid all the clothes; and then, Still favoured by the luck of evil men, Found a new customer in Dr. Case. All more minute particulars to smother, Let it suffice, Nine guineas was the price For which one doctor bought the other; As once I heard a Preacher say in Guinea, “You see how one black sin bring on anudder, Like little nigger pickaninny, A-riding pick-a-back upon him mudder!” “Humph!” said the Doctor, with a smile sarcastic, Seeming to trace Some likeness in the face, “So death at last has taken old Bombastic!” But in the very middle of his joking,-- The _subject_, still unconscious of the scoff-- Seized all at once with a bad fit of choking, He too was _taken of_! Leaving a fragment “On the Hooping Cough.” Satan still sending luck, Another body found another buyer: For ten pounds ten the bargain next was struck, Dead doctors going higher. “Here,” said the purchaser, with smile quite pleasant, Taking a glimpse at his departed brother, “Here’s half a guinea in the way of present-- Subjects are scarce, and when you get another, Let _me_ be first.”--Bunce took him at his word, And suddenly his old atrocious trick did, Sacking M.D. the third, Ere he could furnish “Hints to the Afflicted.”