CXXII — 5th Figure
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Since Dora Logan a wahk with Gallawoss,
The man them a beat them wife with junka ‘tick.
Why, why, why, Amily!
Bring back me dumpling, yah? Amily!
No dog, no puss, no fowl, Amily.
Bring back me dumpling, yah?54 Amily.
No dog, no puss, no fowl, Amily.
Fetch back me dumpling, yah? Amily.
This has to go very fast, indeed as fast as the words of the second bar can be spoken. It will be found then to correspond to a moderate Allegro in six time counted in two.
Two stories are mixed up here. One of the girl who walks with the Gallawoss—a Lizard with a gold eye and an undeserved reputation for biting—which leads to an age the reverse of golden, when the men beat their wives with junka (short) sticks. And the other, of some incident connected with breakfast in the field, when Amily ate somebody’s dumpling and laid the blame on the usual scapegoat, the cat.