Who will blow up your tubes like copper flues,

Or cut your tonsils right away,

As you'd shell out your almonds for Christmas-day;

And after all a matter of doubt,

Whether you ever would hear the shout:

Of the little blackguards that bawl about,

'There you go with your tonsils out!'

Why I knew a deaf Welshman, who came from Glamorgan

On purpose to try a surgical spell,

And paid a guinea, and might as well