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133 And Johnny burrs, and laughs aloud,

Whether in cunning or in joy,

I cannot tell; but while he laughs,

Betty a drunken pleasure quaffs,

To hear again her idiot boy.

And now she's at the pony's tail,

And now she's at the pony's head,

On that side now, and now on this,

And almost stifled with her bliss,

A few sad tears does Betty shed.

She kisses o'er and o'er again,

Him whom she loves, her idiot boy,

She's happy here, she's happy there,

She is uneasy every where;

Her limbs are all alive with joy.