La bless you, good folks, mind your own consarns,

and don't be making a mob in the street;

O Sergeant M'Farlane! you have not come across

my poor little boy, have you, in your beat?

Do, good people, move on! don't stand staring at me

like a parcel of stupid stuck pigs;

Saints forbid! but he's p'r'aps been inviggled

away up a court for the sake of his clothes

He'd a very good jacket, for certain,

for I bought it myself for a shilling one day in Rag Fair;