Supplied with cash, which held between his jaws—

The reason’s plain—he had no hands but paws—

He’d trot o’er Tower Hill to a favourite shop,

There eat his meal and down his money drop.

To club he went on each successive night,

Where, dressed in jacket gay, he took his pipe;

With spectacles on nose he played his tricks,

And pawed the paper, not the politics.

Going his usual round, near Traitors’ Gate,

Infirm and almost blind, he met his fate;