him being put, he had put.
'tudy a 'cheme, studies a scheme. It is more usual 'tudy a plan. This common, vulgar song is evidently of late origin and probably does not really belong to the story.
XIV. DOBA.
One day Puss make a ball an' invite the whole world of Ratta.
All the Ratta dress in long coat an' silk dress. There was t'ousand of them women, an' men. When them come they bring a little boy an' the mother with a young baby.
When all the Ratta settle, the door was shut, an' the Puss them have them junka 'tick secretly in a them trousies' foot. They made a bargain between themselves that, when the Ratta deep in dancing, Doba must out the lamp, then the licking-match commence.
When the music begin, it sweet Ratta so that they dance till their white shirt-bosom was wet.
The fiddler was Dandy Jimmy Flint.