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