Then that party isn’t Old Bill Bates!

Y’ might guess him fer a chap what wears a pretty stiffish lip,

And he user ter own a one-eyed spotted bitch,

And he’s mostly rags and air-holes—jest the picter of his kip—

So it’s hard ter tell (fer strangers) which is which;

But he’s grit right to the bottom, and the mate what’s tried his sand,

He ’ud swag it back from them ’ere Pearly Gates

With a longish stride, I’ll swear,

If they kep’ no lodger there

By the monniker of “Old Bill Bates.”