The Jolly Old Waterman.
And did you ne’er hear of a jolly old Waterman
Who at the cabstand used for to ply?
He feathered his nest with the passengers’ halfpennies,
Smoking his pipe, with a drop in each eye,
He looked so drunk—yet stood so steadily,
The drivers all flocked to his stand so readily;
And he eyed the old rogues with so knowing an air,
For this Waterman knew they would cheat every fare.
What sights of gents drunk and incapable, very,