;

And what sort of men they could be;

When some spread their tables without any cloth,

With basins and spoons, and the fuming bean-broth,

Which they took for their coffee and tea.

"They'd queer kind of sights, I have heard Grandma' say,

About in their streets; for, if not every day,

At least it was nothing uncommon,

To see them pile on the poor back of one horse

A saddle and