"In spite of bad luck, don't be a grumbler;
If you are finished off from a tumbler! [11]
But to the end of your life, cut a shine,
You're not the first man got into a line."
Foddy, loddy, high O.
[1: child]
[2: feet]
[3: accomplished;]
[4: thief]
[5: round for theft]
[6: leer]
[7: steal; handkerchief]
[8: housebreaking]
[9: highwayman]
[10: money]
[11: cart; Notes]
THE CADGER'S BALL [Notes]
[1852]
[From JOHN LABERN'S _Popular Comic Song Book_. Tune--_Joe
Buggins._].
I
Oh, what a spicy flare-up, tear-up,
Festival Terpsickory,
Was guv'd by the genteel cadgers
In the famous Rookery.
As soon as it got vind, however,
Old St Giles's vos to fall--
They all declar'd, so help their never,
They'd vind up vith a stunnin' ball!
Tol, lol lol, etc.