What, marry old Margery! no, no, no.”

J. L. Hatton.[38]


Caveat Venditor.

Joe Podgers, the farmer, he keeps a rare store

Of sheep, as his neighbours can see,

And oxen, and I can’t tell how many more,

For a well-to-do fellow is he.

Of beef and of mutton he never doth fail,

And craftily qualified is his milk-pail;