Go a’ter ’em, and they turns tail and flees;

Then you go back, and back they come at you!

So as God made ’em’s what they got to do.

1st Shepherd.

Aye, I don’t doubt the stars lays facts to mind:

There’s them as say men’s names be marked and signed,—

Writ in the roof up there, for proof that God’s behind.

Watcher.

Ay-oh, ay-oh, ay-oh!