With a smile on his pale face;
“Now blow me!” “Twenty-three” exclaimed;
“This here’s a Brixton case.”
Round turn’d he somewhat stagger’d,
These myrmidons to see,
But he took the watchman’s measure,
And the weight of “Twenty-three.”
And ere “Robinson” you’d summon
He had laid the former low,
By tripping up his heels, and dealt