Won't raise me to three quid a week, the old skinflint. Though travelling's cheap,

It do scatter the stamps jest a few, if you don't care to go on the creep.

Roolette might jest set me up proper, but then, dontcherknow, it might not,

And I fear I should come back cleared out, if my luck didn't land me a pot.

Oh, dash them spondulicks! The pieces is all as I wants for my 'elth.

And then them darned Sosherlist jugginses 'owl till all's blue agin Wealth.

It gives me the ditherums, CHARLIE; it do, dear old man, and no kid.

Wy, they 'd queer the best pitches in life, if they kiboshed the Power of the Quid!

There's Venice again! I could start this next week with a couple o' pals;

But yer gondoler's 'ardly my form, and I never wos nuts on canals.