“‘My friend, I will, upon my word’

The Cockney then did say,

‘I’ll come with you just like a bird—

A bird they call a J.’

“‘Come, thin,’ said Pat, ‘no longer waitr

We’re losing half the day;

And sure thin since we may be late

We’d better take the K.’

“And as they to the town did go,

’Twas thus the Cockney spake: