Tom Moore then said, oddly enough: "There is another poem in the Times that I should like to know the author of;--A Parson's Account of his Journey to the Cambridge Election." I laid claim to that also.

"That is curious," said Moore.

"I begged Barnes to tell me who wrote it.

He said that he had received it from Cambridge, and touched it up himself, and pretended that all the best strokes were his.

I believed that he was lying, because I never knew him to make a good joke in his life.