Part 26 (1/2)

[3: pocket]

[4: money; mistress]

[5: Notes]

[6: food]

[7: clothes; money]

[8: hat]

[9: drunken]

[10: watch; pocketbook]

[11: pockets his money]

[12: ran off]

[13: indulge in banter]

[14: Notes]

[15: inform]

[16: betray]

[17: neck]

[18: persuaded]

[19: police; arrested]

[20: transported]

”NIX MY DOLL, PALS, FAKE AWAY” [Notes]

[1834]

[By W. HARRISON AINSWORTH, being Jerry Juniper's chaunt in _Rookwood_.]

In a box of the stone jug I was born, [1]

Of a hempen widow the kid forlorn, [2]

Fake away! [3]

And my father, as I've heard say, Was a merchant of capers gay, [4 ]

Who cut his last fling with great applause.

Nix my doll, pals, fake away! [5]

To the time of hearty choke with caper sauce. [6]

Fake away!

The knucks in quod did my schoolmen play, [7]

Fake away!

And put me up to the time of day, [8]

Until at last there was none so knowing, No such sneaksman or buzgloak going, [9]

Fake away!

Fogles and fawnies soon went their way, [10]

Fake away!

To the spout with the sneezers in grand array, [11]

No dummy hunter had forks so fly, [12]

No knuckler so deftly, could fake a cly, [13]

Fake away!

No slourd hoxter my snipes could stay, [14]

Fake away!

None knap a reader like me in the lay. [15]

Soon then I mounted in swell street-high, Nix my doll, pals, fake away!

Soon then I mounted in swell street-high.