...thought. "Four and twenty blackbirds, baked in a pie", reappears here as a "Smugglers' Song": Four and twenty ponies, trotting through the dark, Brandy for the parson, baccy for the clerk. . . . It reappears to a far more serious purpose in the splendid lyric called "Cold Iron", which compresses...

...ponies, Trotting through the Park — Brandy for the Parson, 'Baccy for the Clerk. 'Them that asks no questions isn't told a lie, Watch the wall, my darling, while the Gentlemen go by ! THE BEE BOY'S SONG Bees ! Bees ! Hark to the Bees! ' Hide from your neighbors as much as you please,...

...twenty ponies, Trotting through the Park — Brandy for the Parson, 'Baccy for the Clerk. Them that asks no questions isn't told a lie. Watch the wall, my darling, while the Gentlemen go by! 'DYMCHURCH FLIT' THE BEE BOY'S SONG Bees! Bees! Hark to the Bees! ' Hide from your neighbours as much...

...twenty ponies, Trotting through the dark — Brandy for the Parson, 'Baccy for the Clerk. Them that asks no questions isn't told a lie — Watch the wall, my darling, while the Gentlemen go by! "DYMCHURCH FLIT.' THE BEE BOY'S SONG. Bees! Bees! Hark to your bees! " Hide from your neighbours as...

...twenty ponies Trotting through the dark — Brandy for the Parson, 'Baccy for the Clerk. Them that asks no questions isn't told a lie — Watch the wall, my darling, while the Gentlemen go by ! lasted into the last decade. Mr. HE Maiden, the Surrey historian to whom all Surrey writers and readers...

...Romney, to turn their faces to the hedge-side, or to the wall, " when the gentlemen went by." And— If you wake at midnight, and hear a horse's feet,...watch the wall, my darling, while the gentlemen go by. CHAPTER IV THE " MURDERS BY SMUGGLERS " IN HAMPSHIRE THE most outstanding chapter in the whole history...

...and hear a horse's feet, Don't go drawing back the blind, or looking in the street. Them that asks no questions isn't told a lie. Watch the wall, my darling, while the Gentlemen go by I Five and twenty ponies, Trotting through the dark— Brandy for the Parson, 'Baccy for the Clerk;...

...midnight and hear a horse's feet, Don't go drawing back the blind or looking in the street, Them that asks no questions isn't told a lie. Watch the wall, my...watch the wall, my darling, while the gentlemen go by."1 Fairfield Church, in a lonely part of the marsh country between Brookland and Appledore, is said...

...twenty ponies, Trotting through the Park — Brandy for the Parson, 'Baccy for the Clerk. Them that asks no questions isn't told a lie. Watch the wall, my darling, while the Gentlemen go by! •DYMCHURCH FLIT1 THE BEE BOY'S SONG Bees! Bees! Hark to the Bees! 'Hide from your neighbours as much...

...With a cap of Valenciennes, and a velvet hood— A present from the Gentlemen, along o' being good! Five and twenty ponies, Trotting through the dark— Brandy for the Parson, 'Baccy for the Clerk. Them that asks no questions isn't told a lie— Watch the wall, my darling, while the Gentlemen go...