Dartmoor for bad grub but plenty of chat,

Portsmouth a blooming bad place for hard work.

Chatham on Sunday gives four ounces of pork,

Portland is the worst of the lot for to joke in,

For fetching a lagging there is no place like Woking.”


“Joe quickly his sand had sold, sir,

And Bess got a basket of rags;

Then up to St. Giles’s they rolled sir;

To every bunter Bess brags,