He stopped, and bending his head, mused for a moment. Then he capered on, with a grin.

“Hi! yah! yah! Golly, I hab it!

“‘Sugar Bob, Sugar Bob, Sugar Bob-ee;

I eat a glass of lager and I run away to sea—

Sugar Bob, Sugar Bob, Sugar Bob-eree,

Zwei glass o’ lager am what suits me.’”

He grinned with delight at his song, and then burst out again:

“Way down on de ole Gum’s island,

Knife and a fork a-stickin’ in de bacon—

Bacon, bacon, bacon plenty.”