He’s very plucky too is John,
But yet he’s very slow,
And perhaps he never may perceive
Our scheme about the row.
But not another word of this
To anybody’s ears,
The dame she plays the list’ner,
I have my doubts and fears.
So let us go up-stairs at once,
I think it will be best,
And let us pray to Him above,
Before we go to rest.
So with a pious countenance,
His prayers as usual said,
But squinting round the room the while,
He spied an empty bed.
What a pity that these empty stocks
Should be unoccupied;
Do you think my little cousin, Mark,
To them could be denied.
’Tis just the very thing, said Mark,
Your cousin, sir, and you,
Would carry out my scheme first-rate,
One at each side of Lue.
The dame being asked did not object
If he could pay the rent,
And had a decent characterz
And Louis would consent.
But I do object to this says Lue,
And on this very ground,
Willy and his cousins, ma’am,
They soon will me surround.
They’re nothing in my line at all
They are so near a-kin,
And so if I consent to this
At once they’ll hem me in.
O, you couldn’t think it, Master Lue,
That I should do you harm,
For don’t I read my testament
And don’t I sing my psalm.