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Captain

the Bloody  in, &c.

Captain O Blunder, an old, bold, ever fighting and never failing Hero, Ah, many a blow have I gotten, and five hundred more have I given ; for since I could walk, talk, fuddle, fight, fall, rise striddle, widdle and wrangle, I have been always in battle.

Ah! many a bout have I had with my own mother, who was an old robustic hag, stout as a horse, bold as a lion, cunning as a witch; she had a fist as hard as a foals foot, Arra, many a black, blue, and bloodless wound, she gave the backside of my buttocks with it.

But when she grew old and craized, and I betwixt a lad and a man, I gave her a hearty trimming, that she never dared to crook her clinker on me again ; but the old buck my father espoused the quarrel, and gave me a hearty leathering, telling me it was the height of wickedness for a man to strike his mother : Ah, dear heart, but the horse-lash, the heels of his brogs, the weight of his feet, and a skinful of sore bones, made me a good boy, I would have kiss’d my mother’s backside tor peace and mercy at any rate, (and would Yankie-Doodle’s father use him so, he might yet become a good boy like myself) but dear did I pay for my perfect obedience, I was dead and half dead many a day after ; bur my dear boy, I took courage to myself, and became a firelock cocker, where I got fighting my fill, my body all in wimble bores; Ah, dear heart, the balls ran thro’ me like evil spirits, tremendous is the blood I have lost