8 KING ALFRED AND THE CAKES.

Shop! It’s too bad! A set of careless loons—

"T would serve them right were I to bone the spoons!
I’d do it, too—but that I rather fear

There’s little silver to be met with here;

And since my troops the natives chose to settle,
I’ve had sufficient of Britannia mettle.

Still, out of something this concern I'll chisel :

T’ll take—let’s see—a quartern loaf! then mizzle.

[He takes a quartern loaf, and tucks tt up under his smock-
Jrock.

 

SONG (Gururvm),

(Atrr—One Bumper at parting.)
OnE buster at parting (though many
The act down as thieving would set),