scared wan face;

Then sent a random brickbat down, which

knock'd me into space.

Nine days I fell, or thereabouts: and, had we

not nine lives,

I wis I ne'er had seen again thy sausage-shop,

St Ives!

Had I, as some cats have, nine tails, how gladly

I would lick

The hand, and person generally, of him who