Joe’s teeth began to clash.

He’d hair scarce none, tho’ h’ seem’d to have

Abundance on his pate.[47]

Now, he exclaimed upon the knave;

Then, murmur’d o’er his fate.

(Oh! ’twas a piteous sight to see

So brave a man in misery—

Confused, confounded, as was he.)

* * * * *

With watch in hand, Joe ’gan to moan—