“ Boys you'll find in plenty,
⁠Nigger no tell lies,
Laugh to see de precious lot,
⁠Ebery sort and size—
Boys who drive cabs patent
⁠Furious troo de street,
Boy dat take out physic,
⁠And boy dat carry meat. ”

“ I sabe up all de pennies,
And wid a sixpence toder day,
I went to Surry Teatre,
To see de Hamlet play;
Dey put me in de gallery,
In a corner by myself,
I look'd like a monkey dere,
Grinning on a shelf. ”

“ Dare it tell you all about
⁠De white man and black.
⁠Veel about, &c.
He say dat Cain was de fuss man,
⁠Julycome Caesar was de toder—
Dey put Adam on de treden mill,
⁠’Kase he kill him broder.
⁠Veel about, &c.
And dea dat Mr. Sampson
⁠Was de man dat build de ark,
Mr. Jonas was de fisherman
⁠Who swallow up de shark. ”