Thus he said, or he sung,

"Mi criky bo biggamy kickery bung!"

XXVII.

"Lord! what does he speak?"

"It's Dog-Latin—it's Greek!"

"It's some sort of slang for to puzzle a Beak!"

"It's no like the Scotch,"

Said a Scot on the watch,

"Pho! it's nothing at all but a kind of hotch-potch!"

XXVIII.