Then one unto the other said, “This rattin’ doesn’t pay;
But we’n powler’t up an’ down a bit, an’ had a rattlin’ day.”
Look ye there!
Pall Mall Gazette. July 7, 1886.
Mr. Randolph Caldecott must have founded his well known children’s ballad upon the following very old nursery rhyme:—
There were three jovial Welshmen,
As I have heard them say,
And they would go a hunting
Upon St. David’s day.
All the day they hunted,