For three months he was sent to step at the mill.

All through prigging a goose,

Oh! the Michaelmas goose.


The Vorkhouse Boy.

The cloth vos laid in the Vorkhouse hall,

And the greatcoats hung on the vhite-vashed vall;

The paupers all were blithe and gay,

Keeping their Christmas holiday;

Vhen the master he cried, with a roguish leer,