My mark's a tidy little feed, And 'Enery Irving's gallery, To see old 'Amlick do a bleed, And Ellen Terry on the die, Or Franky's ghostes at hi-spy, And parties carried on a shutter [14] Them vulgar Coupeaus is my eye! In fact, my form's the Bloomin' Utter. III The Grosvenor's nuts--it is, indeed! I goes for 'Olman 'Unt like pie. It's equal to a friendly lead [15] To see B. Jones's judes go by. Stanhope he makes me fit to cry, Whistler he makes me melt like butter, Strudwick he makes me flash my cly-- [16] In fact, my form's the Bloomin' Utter. _Envoy_. I'm on for any Art that's 'Igh! I talks as quite as I can splutter; I keeps a Dado on the sly; In fact, my form's the Blooming Utter! [1: sausages] [2: friend] [3: very hungry] [4: girl] [5: fondling; softly] [6: thus expressively] [7: nice] [8: _i.e._ china] [9: look at] [10: pawn] [11: drink] [12: Botticelli(?)] [13: Wagner(?)] [14: The Corsican Brothers(?)] [15: Notes] [16: spend money] "TOTTIE" [1887] [By "DAGONET" (G. R. SIMS) in _Referee_, 7 Nov.]. I As she walked along the street With her little 'plates of meat,' [1] And the summer sunshine falling On her golden 'Barnet Fair,' [2] Bright as angels from the skies Were her dark blue 'mutton pies.' [3] In my 'East and West' Dan Cupid [4] Shot a shaft and left it there. II She'd a Grecian 'I suppose,' [5] And of 'Hampstead Heath' two rows, [6] In her 'Sunny South' that glistened [7] Like two pretty strings of pearls; Down upon my 'bread and cheese' [8] Did I drop and murmur, 'Please Be my "storm and strife," dear Tottie, [9] O, you darlingest of girls!' III Then a bow-wow by her side, [10] Who till then had stood and tried A 'Jenny Lee' to banish, [11] Which was on his 'Jonah's whale,' [12] Gave a hydrophobia bark, (She cried, 'What a Noah's Ark!') [13] And right through my 'rank and riches' [14] Did my 'cribbage pegs' assail. [15] IV Ere her bull-dog I could stop She had called a 'ginger pop,' [16] Who said, 'What the "Henry Meville" [17] Do you think you're doing there?' And I heard as off I slunk, 'Why, the fellow's "Jumbo's trunk!" [18] And the 'Walter Joyce' was Tottie's [19] With the golden 'Barnet Fair.' [20] [1: feet] [2: hair] [3: eyes] [4: breast] [5: nose] [6: teeth] [7: mouth] [8: knees] [9: wife] [10: dog] [11: flee] [12: tail] [13: lark] [14: breeches] [15: legs] [16: slop = policeman] [17: devil] [18: drunk] [19: voice] [20: hair] A PLANK BED BALLAD [1888] [By "DAGONET" (G. R. SIMS) in _Referee_, 12 Feb.]. I Understand, if you please, I'm a travelling thief, The gonophs all call me the gypsy; [1] By the rattler I ride when I've taken my brief, [2] And I sling on my back an old kipsey. [3] II If I pipe a good chat, why, I touch for the wedge, [4] But I'm not a "particular" robber; I smug any snowy I see on the hedge, [5] And I ain't above daisies and clobber. [6] III