Of the gent, who has touched me so!

Then he glittered a grin, from his cat-like eye,

Thro' a coal black lash on me,

And he bowed, with his lifted silk top hat,

"I'm the Devil himself!" quoth he.

Good gracious! yes, I was certainly struck,

So suddenly thus to be

With the Devil himself! but soon, or late,

He was bound to appear to me.

So screwing my nerves, to concert pitch,