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If you see the stable-door setting open wide;

If you see a tired horse lying down inside;

If your mother mends a coat cut about and tore;

If the lining's wet and warm don't you ask no more!

If you meet King George's men, dressed in blue and red,

You be careful what you say, and mindful what is said.

If they call you "pretty maid," and chuck you 'neath the

chin, Don't you tell where no one is, nor yet where no one's been!

Knocks and footsteps round the house whistles after dark You've no call for running out till the house-dogs bark. Trusty's here, and Pinchers here, and see how dumb they

lie They don't fret to follow when the Gentlemen go by!

If you do as you've been told, 'likely there's a chance, You'll be give a dainty doll, all the way from France, With a cap of Valenciennes, and a velvet hood A present from the Gentlemen, along o' being good!

Five and twenty ponies,

Trotting through the dark

Brandy for the Parson,

'Baccy for the Clerk.

Them that asks no questions isn't told a lie Watch the wall, my darling, while the Gentlemen go by!

KING HENRY VII AND THE SHIPWRIGHTS

(A. D. 1487)

T-IARRY, our King in England, from London town is

gone, And comen to Hamull on the Hoke in the Countie of Suth-

ampton.