A sort of a “horse-up,” you know, and he

swigged

A pint of hard cider or so at a crack,

And set down the jug with a satisfied smack.

“Aha!” said he, “that grows the hair on ye,

bub,

My rule durin’ hayin’s more cider, less grub.

I take it, sah, wholly to stiddy my nerves,

And up in the stow hole I pitch ’em some

curves