"Now Taffy had his hearts desire
He had her company,
But when he did begin to jeer,
She in his face did fly."
He was released, and finding a house open and the proprietor absent, he entered and began feeding on the bacon smoking up the chimney, sitting astride of it; but fell down, bacon and all, when the owner and his wife were sitting by the fire. The man beat him severely, and he ran away. Joining some gipsies on the road, they agreed to rob the house of its bacon, by letting Taffy down the chimney with a rope. This was done.
"They let him down, to work he falls,
The bacon strait doth bind,
The gipsies up the bacon haul