him back from death's door!

Only the very last month when the windfalls,

hang 'em, was at twenty a penny!

And the threepence he'd got by grottoing was

spent in plums, and sixty for a child is too many.

And the Cholera man came and whitewash'd us

all and, drat him, made a seize of our hog,—

It's no use to send the Crier to cry him about,

he's such a blunderin drunken old dog;

The last time he was fetched to find a lost child,