"I was sitting on a doorstep, watching the house, when I saw the sodgers coming along.

They turned up from a side street, and were so close that I saw I could not get across and get the door opened in time to give you the alarm.

Then they began to knock at the door, and for a bit I felt so wake that I could not move.

Then the crowd began to gather, and then I said to myself, The master will try to shlip out at the back of the house.

So I went round, but I found the thieves of the world waiting for ye there.