Page:The Universal Songster and Museum of Mirth.djvu/214

 COMI SOWOS, EASTE MONDAy FO EVKIL A COBBLZa I am, and my name is DiCk Awl,  a bit of a , or I li h a 1 With   old wife,  a tofis11 I  ts   with a mta tat T This morning, at beeakfast, on baeon  sidn,' Says I, to my wife, "I'm a going to Greenwich;" Says she, "Dicky Awl, aye, and I will go too," Says I, "Mrs. Awl, I'il be  - d if you do." Tol de mL ' One Word bred another---a shocking mishap.* She gave me the l/e, and I gave her the rotrap; To tarry at home, then, I thought it a sin, So I soon bolted out,but I bolted her i Tol de rol. To Greenwich, by water, I merrily sl! , And saw them 811 rolling it, heels oe head; The sun was so bright, and so Igh the wind blew, I spisdwhet I don't ehooso to mention to you. Tol de roL But when I got home, (it is true, ou my life) Bill ButtoR, the tailor, was off with my wife; Though old Mrs. Awl has-no fancy to bolts, She has but one tooth, but that tooth is a colt's, Tol de Ah, Sally, my lover 'twig & very bad idms, To cut me, and choose the ninth part oF a She thought in eloping, so cramlug and triokey, With poor Dickey Awl it would soon be all To! do roL

�