English poem
V
by John Stephen Farmer (1854–1916)
Her duds are bob--she's a kinchin crack, And I hopes as how she'll never back; For she never lushes dog's-soup or lap, But she loves my cousin the bluffer's tap. She's wide-awake, and her prating cheat, For humming a cove was never beat; But because she lately nimm'd some tin, They have sent her to lodge at the King's Head Inn.
[1: public house] [2: pipe; smoke] [3: paid a shilling ] [4: gin] [5: humbug] [6: porter] [7: sherry] [8: mistress] [9: pork] [10: red-herring] [11: lots of beer] [12: judges] [13: clothes; neat; fine young woman] [14: drinks water or tea] [15: inn-keeper] [16: tongue] [17: fooling a man] [18: stole; money] [19: Newgate; Notes]
THE HOUSE BREAKER'S SONG [Notes] [c. 1838]
[By G. W. M. REYNOLDS in Pickwick Abroad].