GAFFERS AND GAMMERS. 18k She went to the joiner’s To buy him a coffin, But when she came back The poor dog was laughing.* She took a clean dish To get him some tripe, But when she came back He was smoking his pipe. She went to the fishmonger’s To buy him some fish, And when she came back He was licking the dish. * Probaoly offing or loffin’, to complete the rhyme. So in Shakespeare's ‘Midsummer Night’s Dream,” Act IL., sc. 1. “*And then the whole guire hold their hips, and Joffe.”