BAUMANN

LONDINISMEN

GAUNER-, MATROSEN-, SPORT- UND ZUNFT-AUSDRÜCKE.
MIT EINER GESCHICHTLICHEN EINLEITUNG UND MUSTERSTÜCKEN.

EIN SUPPLEMENT ZU ALLEN ENGL.-DEUTSCHEN WÖRTERBÜCHERN

VON

HEINRICH BAUMANN

MASTER OF ARTS OF LONDON UNIVERSITY, HEADMASTER OF THE ANGLO-
GERMAN SCHOOL, PRESIDENT OF THE GERMAN TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION.

A Slang Ditty.

Rum coves that relieve us

Of chinkers and pieces,
Is gin'rally lagged,

Or, wuss luck, gits scragged.

Are smashers and divers

And noble contrivers

Not sold to the beaks

By the coppers an' sneaks?

Yet moochin' arch-screevers, Concoctin' deceivers,

Chaps as reap like their own

What by tothers were sown;

Piratical fakers

Of bosh by the acres,

These muck-worms of trash

Cut, oh, a great dash.

But, there, it don't matter,
Since to cut it still fatter,
By 'ook and by crook
Ve've got up this book.