, and many more, amongst which
is cunning, he has neither courage nor generosity. Think of a fellow
like that putting down two hundred pounds to relieve a distressed
fellow-creature; why he would rob, but for the law and the fear it fills
him with, a workhouse child of its breakfast, as the saying is--and has
been heard to say that he would not trust his own father for sixpence,
and he can't imagine why such a thing as credit should be ever given. I
never heard a person give him a good word--stay, stay, yes! I once heard
an old parson, to whom I sold a Punch, say that he had the art of
receiving company gracefully, and dismissing them without refreshment. I
don't wish to be too hard with him, and so let him make the most of that
compliment. Well! he manages to get on, whilst Jack is hanged; not quite
enviably, however; he has had his rubs, and pretty hard ones--everybody
knows he slunk from Waterloo, and occasionally checks him with so doing;
whilst he has been rejected by a woman--what a mortification to the low
pride of which the scoundrel has plenty! There's a song about both
circumstances, which may, perhaps, ring in his ears on a dying bed. It's
a funny kind of song, set to the old tune of the Lord-Lieutenant or
Deputy, and with it I will conclude my discourse, for I really think it's
past one.' The jockey then, with a very tolerable voice, sung the
following song:

THE JOCKEY'S SONG.

Now list to a ditty both funny and true!--
Merrily moves the dance along--
A ditty that tells of a coward and screw,
My Lord-Lieutenant so free and young.

Sir Plume, though not liking a bullet at all--
Merrily moves the dance along--
Had yet resolution to go to a _ball_,
My Lord-Lieutenant so free and young.

'Woulez wous danser, mademoiselle?'--
Merrily moves the dance along--
Said she, 'Sir, to dance I should like very well,'
My Lord-Lieutenant so free and young.

They danc'd to the left, and they danc'd to the right--
Merrily moves the dance along--
And her troth the fair damsel bestow'd on the knight,
My Lord-Lieutenant so free and young.

'Now what shall I fetch you mademoiselle?'_--_
Merrily moves the dance along--
Said she, 'Sir, an ice I should like very well,
My Lord-Lieutenant so free and young.

But the ice, when he'd got it, he instantly ate--
Merrily moves the dance along--