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Ragged Jack, wot chalks 'Starvation !'

Look'd quite fat and swellish there--

While Dick, wot 'dumbs it' round the nation,

Had all the jaw among the fair.

Limping Ned wot brought his duchess,

At home had left his wooden pegs--

And Jim, wot cadges it on crutches,

Vos the nimblest covey on his legs.

Tol, lol lol, etc.

V

The next arrival was old Joe Burn,

Wot does the fits to Natur chuff--

And Fogg, And Fogg, wot's blind each day in Ho'born,

Saw'd his way there clear enough,

Mr. Sinniwating Sparrow,

In corduroys span new and nice,

Druv up in his pine-apple barrow,

Which he used to sell a win a slice. [6]

Tol, lol lol, etc.

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