But while in Bathurst's busy streets

He got upon the spree,

And publicans was awful cheats

For soon "lamm'd down" was he.

He said he'd "busted up his cheque"

(What's that, I'd like to know?)

And now his happiness was wrecked,

To work he'd got to go.

He'd known the time, not long ago,

When half the year he'd spend