Posted by Ian E-N on February 21, 2005 at 09:34:49 from 148.88.0.10 user IanEN.
In Reply to: Re: Pull devil, pull baker posted by Jeremy Kriewaldt on February 20, 2005 at 22:38:20:
Mr Brewer says:
Pull devil, pull baker. Lie, cheat, and wrangle away, for one is as bad as the other
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Well one of these lads was the divil
The other was bailiff McGlynn
And the one was as nice as the other
For both were as ugly as sin.
and "The Rigs of the Times" :-
Now the next is a baker, I must bring him in.
He charge fourpence a loaf and thinks it no sin.
When he do bring it in, is not bigger than your fist,
And the top of the loaf is popped off with the ye'st,