All the Ladies.

And so do his sisters, and his cousins, and his aunts.

His sisters and his cousins,

Whom he reckons up by dozens,

And his aunts!

Then Sir Joseph (who was proud of his lowly origin, and who thought that a short sketch of his career would afford a useful example to ambitious persons in a humble rank of life) was so good as to sing the following song:

When I was a lad I served a term

As office-boy in an attorney’s firm;

I cleaned the windows and I swept the floor,

And I polished up the handle of the big front door.