That I can't promise you, sir, she said.

Then I won't marry you, my pretty maid!

Nobody asked you, sir! she said.

CLXIX.

[Song on the bells of Derby on foot-ball morning, a custom now discontinued:]

Pancakes and fritters,

Say All Saints and St. Peters;

When will the ball come,

Say the bells of St. Alkmun;

At two they will throw,