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Now, when a bloke 'e cracks a bloke fer insults to a skirt, / An' wrecks a joint to square a lady's name, / They used to call it chivalry, but now they calls it dirt, / An' the end of it is cops an' quod an' shame. / Fer insults to fair Gwendoline they 'ad to be wiped out; / But Rosie's sort is jist fair game-when Ginger ain't about.
It was Jimmie Ah Foo's cook-shop, which is close be Spadger's Lane, / Where a variegated comp'ny tears the scran, / An' there's some is "tup'ny coloured," an' some is "penny plain," / Frum a lawyer to a common lumper-man. / Or a writer fer the papers, or a slaver on the prowl, / An' noiseless Chows a-glidin' 'round wiv plates uv duck an' fowl.