In red already ride;

'Tis but a step, and on a horse

You soon may go a-stride."

So off they scampered, man and horse,

As time and temper pressed—

But Huggins, hitching on a tree,

Branched off from all the rest.

Howbeit he tumbled down in time

To join with Tom and Bob,

All in Fair Mead, which held that day