I turned from the sight, to my bedroom stepped back,

And brought out a vial marked “Pulv. Ipecac,”

When my Nancy exclaimed—for their sufferings shocked her—

“Don’t you think you had better, love, run for the doctor!”

I ran, and was scarcely back under my roof,

When I heard the sharp clatter of old Jalop’s hoof.

I might say that I hardly had turned myself round,

When the doctor came into the room with a bound;

He was covered with mud from his head to his foot,

And the suit he had on was his very worst suit,