Or the milkman, Water-well-it,

With the raindrops dripping, dashing

Profitably in the milk-cans?

It was neither milkman, dustman,

Cobbler, postman, none of those men,

Coming on that misty morning;

But a set of sturdy fellows,

Fast advancing up the alley,

Striding, splashing through the raindrops,

Come with warrant strictly formal,