Then Sal let loose her father’s rats,
That destroyed all the cats in the alley.
Now the landlord, an old sot, a bull terrier had got,
And he tarried to bully poor Sally,
And he sat on his dog, which went the whole hog,
And destroyed all the rats in the alley.
Then the neighbours joined the cat’s meat men,
To have their revenge upon Sally,
And they set all their dogs at her, and then
Sal slew all the dogs in the alley.