[10: drink; food]
[11: drinking-house]




THE BUNTER'S CHRISTENING. [Notes]
[1789]

[By GEORGE PARKER in _Life's Painter of Variegated
Characters_].


I

Bess Tatter, of Hedge-lane,
To ragman Joey's joy,
The cull with whom she snooz'd [1]
Brought forth a chopping boy:
Which was, as one might say,
The moral of his dad, sir;
And at the christ'ning oft,
A merry bout they had, sir.

II

For, when 'twas four weeks old,
Long Ned, and dust-cart Chloe,
To give the kid a name,
Invited were by Joey;