Note 2 — THE LAST THREATENED INVASION: COMMOTION AND FALSE ALARM IN THE WEST.

“I don’t remember how the words were broft into rhymes mind ’e. Et said how Englishmen had beaten the French over and over again; taken countries they once ruled over, had them still, and meant to keep them too. Ef Boney’s men landed upon Cornish shores, we wed beat them to bruss. Then it was said how the French were a ‘heap of poor pelyacks’2 who, at home, had neither decent meat nor clothes; but were glad to catch quilkans,3 bullhorns,4 and padgy-paws;5 and to stampy about in temberan shoes.