She heard. A troop of idle boys

Came flocking round her, rough and rude.

Some o'er her shoulders leaned; some stood

In front of her, and cried: "Paint me!—

My picter I should like to see."

Some laughed, some shouted. "What a set!"

Said Arabella, in a pet:

"And no policeman within hail

To send these ruffian imps to jail."

In fine, she could not work, so went