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A Mr. Jarvoise of Birmingham appointed a Mr. Wall as steward to some large estates. Mr. Wall having greatly oppressed the tenantry a guest wrote the following lines

Will Shakespeare of old for the pleasure of all Once dress'd up a man in the shape of a wall Our Landlord alas! on a different plan Has dress'd up a wall in the shape of a man Of such rude materials so heavy and thick With a heart of hard stone and a facing of Brick That tis plain from his bungling form and vile features Twas built by some journeyman workman of Nnatures And that spoil'd by its Master's untinned neglect It oppresses the land it was meant to protect This wall this cursed Wall ever since it was ruin'd With Squabbles and quarrels the parish his teand