Gallery of Comicalities; Embracing Humorous Sketches

by Robert Cruikshank; George Cruikshank; Robert Seymour

So I gib a couple ob shillings—For an old blind horse.

Wheel about, &c.

When I got upon the oder side—I drove him up a hill,

Oh, but de oder side—Look rather daffakil.

Wheel about, &c.

Den I jump on board de big ship—And cum across de sea,

And landed on Old England—Where de nigger am free.

Wheel about, &c.

There were a hundred-and-one versions of "Jim Crow," fresh stanzas being added from day to day on the passing events, for the most part written by Leman Rede, and Buckstone, the honorarium offered by Rice being one shilling per line. We select the above from the first version as sung at the Surrey Theatre.