With the lodger’s hat & nice gold guard,

She was up to the scratch, sir,

She had the cheek to call a cab,

With boxes in rotation,

Saying, Cabby, old boy, as quick as you like,

Drive off to Shoreditch Station.

Now her master soon returned home,

The truth I do declare, sir,

Saying the house is rob’d and Mary’s dead,

Here’s the poker cover’d with hair, sir