THE COOPER
The Cooper retails foot baths, pails,
Barrels, hogsheads, butts, and firkins;
Tubs for mashing, cooling, washing,
Bathing, pickling meat or gherkins:
He also shaves and bends his staves,
The monstrous spirit vat to build;
Then iron bound and hoop'd all round
With fine OLD TOM 'tis fill'd
This done, he tries the vessel's size
And then in figures bold;
Declares it will if you it fill,
Five hundred gallons hold.
From March's Penny Library
