Rat-a-tat-tat: OR, THE COSTUMER AND THE CORDWAINER. .A. maIl went hastening down the street, And his hat was over his eye, And he took his strides so long and fleet, That every body he chanced to meet Stopped and stared, And then declared, He must be some great government cheat, Scudding a way to his country seat: For he shook his head, and then his fi st, And then he struck at the wind and miss'd, And slapp'd his thighs, And d-d his eyes, As he was hastening down the street, And the way he was

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... going was hard to beat, By any man of his size! A man was hard at work in a shop, Thumping away on a boot, A stone on his lap, the boot a-top, And a strap went under his foot, Which served to keep the stone from jumping, While the man the boat was thumping, And he hammered as he sang, While the merry lap-stone rang, Echoing the aggravations, With marmorean vibrations. Hat-a-tat-tat, • The fiddle anu cat .' There the man hammer'd <lnd sang as he sat! When he who was hastening down the street, Appear'd at the door, in a deuce of a heat, And into the shop He came with a pop, And says he,