Ashton, John, b. 1834 · London, Chatto and Windus · leaf 368
esire He had her company,But when he did begin to jeer, She in his face did fly. He was released, and finding a house open and the pro-prietor absent, he entered and began feeding on the baconsmoking up the chimney, sitting astride of it; but fell down,bacon and all, when the owner and his wife… … 348 Chap-Books of the Eighteenth Century. They let him down, to work he falls,The bacon strait doth bind,The gipsies up the bacon haulAnd leave the fool behind. He went to the larder and helped himself to the bread andbutter, and by his sooty and begrimed appearance he frightenedthe maid, who…
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