And seeks his young mistress his griefs to disclose.

“Please your Ladyship’s Honour,

I’ve come here upon a

Purtiklar rum business going on in the stable,

Vich, avake as I am, I ain’t no how been able

To get at the truth on:—the last thing each night

I goes round all the ’orses to see as they’re right,—

And they alvays is right too, as far as I see,

Cool, k’viet, and clean, just as ’orses should be,—

Then, furst thing ev’ry morning agen I goes round,