As Heffer says, I then struck him down,

And covered him with deadly wounds,

I stopp’d his mouth I do declare,

For his dying groans I could not bear.

And then I dragg’d him in his gore,

His mangled body then covered o’er,

As my mate said, it was a sickening sight

But the eye of God brought my crime to light.

Of that deed alone I am to blame,

Heffer is innocent, I declare the same,