And he scans new comers anxiously,

For he owes to many a man.

Week in, week out, from morn to night,

He loiters bars before;

He knows the barmaids’ Christian names

(A fact they much deplore;)

Now here, now there, he, with a leer,

Slinks in at the swinging door!

He glories in the Referee,

And reads the Weekly Times,