III

As I vas a crossing St James's Park

I met a swell, a well-togg'd spark. [9]

I stops a bit: then toddled quicker,

For I'd prigged his reader, drawn his ticker; [10]

Then he calls--"Stop thief!" thinks I, my master,

That's a hint to me to mizzle faster. [11]

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