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,