“Old chap, we pays a lot too dear

These fan-tod fakes ter see.

We grafts and grinds and stints our grub,

But if we socked our rent

We soon could buy a blanky pub,

Or stand for Parlyment.

“What say to puttin’ in the peg?

Swear off, old man!—what say?”

Sez Dave, “I’m on—we’ll spike the keg