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“ae ee eae 2 ll i ll al ly Seven Dials, and 35, Hanover Street, Portsea, where upwards of 4000 ballads are continually on sale, together with 40 new penny song books. 4 & H a dainty plant is the cabbage green, Wot grows in the garden bold, With a nice bit of bacon, half fat and lean, He is good either hot or cold. To please your dainty whim, And the chap that !oves cabbage, I’ll tell the blade It’s a dainty meal for him. Sprouting out of the ground is seen, A rare old plant is the cabbage green. Fast be sprouts, for he’s food for kings, And a nice white heart has he; How close he sticks, and how tight he clings To the stump till he’s quite stumpy. In a waggon he’s jolted along to town, And his leaf no longer waves, For he’s packed like a convict and quite done brown As his way to the market he paves, Sprouting out, ke, Full wages have fied, and work’s ill paid, And grub werry scarce has been, Faom being a plant wot's green. The hearty old chap, n future days, Shall fatten you up so fast, For the best of wejables man can raise, ti Sprouting out, ke,
