What did he find when he reached the garden?
His master escaping, in a post-chaise, on the road to London.
What did he do, the born blackguard that he was?
Jumped up behind the chaise to make sure of his prisoner.

It was dark when we got to London.
In a hop, skip, and jump, I was out of the carriage, and in at my own door, before he could look me in the face.
"The date of the warrant, you must know, obliged him to wait till the morning.

All that night, he and the Bow Street runners kept watch They came in with the sunrise--and who did they find?
Major Mulvany snug in his bed, and as innocent as the babe unborn.

Oh, they did their duty! Searched the place from the kitchen to the garrets--and gave it up.
There's but one thing I regret--I let the spy off without a good thrashing.

No matter.