An' all at once he heeard a voice

Cry out, "Stand and deliver!

Your money or your life, mak choice,

Before your brains I shiver;"

He luk'd all raand, but failed to see

A sign of livin craytur,

Then tremlin dropt upon his knee,

Fear stamp'd on ivery faytur.

"Gooid chap," he said, "mi rifle tak,

Mi belts, mi ammunition,