THE GAMBLERS IN A HOBBEL.

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You comical coves I pray draw near
A gambling ditty you shall hear,
On Tuesday met it does appear,
A jolly lot of gamblers,
For Roulette and Hazard they were bent
To gu l the flats was their iutent,
But the police of them had got the scent
So they toddled among the gamblers

                   CHORUS.

In Albe marle Street, what to to,
To Piccadilly the police they fiew,
In James soreet they cried the devils blue
Are all among the gamblers.
Cot Rowen blew the sign I horn,
Got his men arrange I in Martial form,
To take the houses all by storm,
And nail'd the cash and gamvlers,

In divisions marched on two and two,
As they passes folks cried out whats to do
There's sure to be a holla- baloo,
When they get among the gamblers
With picks and crows likewise pitchforks
Sledge-hammers too and tommy-hawks.
The old women they bawl'd out good
lauks,
Are they going to kill the gamblers,
Oh ! no cried one but only mark,
They're going to have a precious lark,
So they're come you see now in the dark

To play at hazzard with the gamblers
When in Albermarle St. they arrived.
To gaiu an ehtrance did cont ive,
And some pigeons killed that was alive,
As if poultry was gamblers,
But shortly there was heard a crash
With sledge-hammers the doors they
smash'd
An altogether in they slashed,
'Twas the devils among the gamblers
This seige so took them unawares
One in his shirt he run down stairs,
Another in the coal hole seemed at prayers
He looked but little like & hambler,

Soon for starting them in trim they got,
And put them with the other lot,
Then to the station off did ot,

To get lodgings for the gamblors
In piccadilly put them to the test.
But soon they seized the cash and chest
And marvel tables of the best
'Twas a fiaahy nest of gamble

Wite cards and dice a lot oh fegs
And cribbage boards with silver pegs,
And dra tmen made with wooden legs,
That showed them slap up gamblers
In St. James's st. they made a haul,
For thers they took them o e and all,
And so e they did for mercy call
sayfng we're only harmless gamblers

But like martial heros on they dash'd
And seized the tables desks and cash,
But i'm told a member mug got smashed
On the head of one of the gamblers,
such a sight was never seen before,
They took in all nigh hand five score
The stations they would hold no more,
They were filled with slap up gam-
blers,
To lde to the office each tipp'd his bob,
And got well fined for their sporting job,
W h they must pay like bricks ar ho
to quad,
For being slap up gamblers.