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204 Ballads, etc. We'll drenk et out of the nepperkin,* boys, Here's a health to the baarley mow. The nepperkin, and the jolly brown boul. Chorus. — Here's a health, etc. . We'll drenk et out of the quaarter pint, boys. Here's a health to the baarley mow. The quaarter pint, nepperkin, and the jolly brown boul. Chorus. — Here's a health, etc. This goes on through very many verses until all the different parts of liquid measure are exhausted ; the three last verses are — We'll drenk et out of the well, my braave boys. Here's a health to the baarley mow. The well, the hoosghead,t the haalf hoosghead, ainker,J the haalf ainker, gallon, the pottle, the quaart, the pint, the haalf a pint, quaarter pint, nepperkin, and the jolly brown boul. Chorus. — Here's a health, etc. We'll drenk et out of the rever, my boys. Here's a health to the baarley mow. The rever, the well, etc. Chorus. — Here's a health, etc. We'll drenk et out of the ocean, my boys, Here's a health to the baarley mow. The ocean, the rever, the well, etc. Chorus. — Here's a health, etc. " At Looe, in East Cornwall, it was usual forty years ago, and probably it is still, for labourers to sing ' The Long Hundred '

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t Cornish for hogshead. X Anker.