there wasn’t a ray to see,

And all to once my cart locked wheels with

another old chap’s cart;

We gee-ed and backed but we hung there fast,

and neither of us could start.

Then the stranger man he struck a match, to

see how he’d git away,

And I vum, he had the homeliest face I’ve seen

for many a day.

Wal, jest for a joke I grabbed his throat and