[Exit.
Scene in a Gin Shop.
| Here some are tumbling and jumping in, And some are staggering out; One’s pawn’d her smock for a quarten of gin, Another, her husband’s coat. Behold, Mr. Tom and Jerry, Have got an old woman in tow, They sluic’d her with gin, ’till she reel’d on her pins, And was haul’d off to quod for a row. |
Scene.—interior of a london gin shop.
Tom and Jerry taking Blue Ruin, after the Spell is broken up.
Tom is sluicing the ivories of some of the unfortunate heroines with blue ruin, whom the breaking up of the Spell has turned-up without any luck, in order to send them to their pannies full of spirits. Jerry is in Tip Street on this occasion, and the Mollishers are all nutty upon him; putting it about, one to another, that he is a well breeched Swell. Fat Bet is pretending to Tom, that she had a great objection to every sort of ruin, no matter how coloured, since she had once been queered upon that suit. Swipy Bill, a translator of Soles, who has been out for a day’s fuddle, for fear his money should become too troublesome to him, has just called in at the Gin Spinner’s to get rid of his last duce, by way of a finish, and to have another drop of blue ruin. This last glass would have floored him, had it not been for the large butt of liquor which he staggered against. Hiccoughing, he swears “he’ll stand by Old Tom while he has a sole left to support such a good fellow.”
