Ashton, John, b. 1834 · London Chatto and Windus · leaf 365
348 Chap-Dooks 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… … master, who came with a sword, but was appalled by tlie sightof the pseudo-fiend. He walked away, frightening the children,till the women of the town determined to drive the devil out;and sorely they beat poor Taffy, who took refuge in thechurch, where he was captured by the sexton, who was…
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