TERARY AUTOLYCUS.

(_SEE CORRESPONDENCE IN THE TIMES ON "LITERARY THEFTS."_)

_Enter AUTOLYCUS, singing._

When books and magazines appear,
With heigh! the hopes of a big sale!--
Why, then comes in the cheat o' the year,
And picks their plums, talk, song, or tale.

The white sheets come, each page my "perk,"
With heigh! sweet bards, O how they sing!--
With paste and scissors I set to work;
Shall a stolen song cost anything?

The Poet tirra-lirra chants,
With heigh! with heigh! he _must_ be a J.--
His Summer songs supply my wants;
They cost me nought--but, ah! they _pay_.

I have served Literature in my time, but now Literature is in _my_
service.

But shall I pay for what comes dear,
To the pale scribes who write,--
For news, and jokes, and stories queer?
Walker! my friends, not quite!
Since filchers may have leave to live,
And vend their "borrowed" budget,
For all my "notions" nix I'll give,
Then sell them as I trudge it.

My traffic is (news) sheets. My father named me AUTOLYCUS, who,
being as I am, littered under Mercury, was likewise a snapper-up
of unconsidered trifles. With paste and scissors I procured this
caparison; and my revenue is the uninquiring public; gallows and gaol
are too powerful on the highway; picking and treadmilling are terrors
to burglars; but in _my_ line of theft I sleep free from the thought
of them. A prize! a prize!...

Jog on, jog on, the foot-pad way,
In the modern Sikes's style-a:
Punctilious fools prefer to _pay_;
But I at scruples smile-a.

... Ha, ha! what a fool Honesty is! and Trust, his sworn brother, a
very simple gentleman ... I understand the business, do it; to have an
open ear, a quick eye, and a nimble hand with the shears is necessary
for a (literary) cutpurse; a good nose is requisite also, to smell out
the good work of other people. I see this is the time that the unjust
man doth thrive.

* * * * *

THE WELLING

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