So up to Lonnon I was sent,

To sell as prime a load of hay,

As ever dried on summer's day.

"Well, standing in Whitechapel Road,

A chap comes up to buy my load,

And looks, and looks about the cart,

Pretending to be 'cute and smart;

But no great judge, as people say,

'Cause why? he never smelt the hay.

Thinks I, as he's a simple chap,