Hello! what are you about?

Why, loo dee, masler, we saw
this here animal around,
without victuals, d'ye see, and
so my mesmater and I agreed
to cut his cable and give him
his liberty, because we have
known before now, what
it is to be at short allowance

R NEWTON 1796

THE SAILORS AND THE POUNDED ASS.

London Pub. Aug. 1796 by W Holland Oxford St.