She took great joy in the tramp.
A feature of Nickie's very humorous and original impersonation of the Yarra-banker was his waggish begging.

When he had danced, before leaving his partner, he assumed a most lugubrious manner, and said: "Dear lydie, would you kindly assist a pore decayed gent, what's got a bedridden wife an' nine starvin' children, all twins?
Just a copper, lydie.

The bailiffs is in, lydie, an' if I don't take 'orne nine-pence for the rent they'll seize ther kerosene case, an' ther flour-sack, and ther rest iv ther drorin-room furniture, kind lydie." A gay vivandiere led Nickie to a portly Henry VIII.

"Sire," she said, "this poor man claims king's bounty for his three sets of triplets.

I humbly commend him to your majesty." "Just a trifle to assist a poor man, kind gent," whined Nickie the Kid.
"Not a morsel iv turkey's passed me lips for seven days.