A debate ensues between two men, Buggins and Muggins, both former police officers from London's Baker Street and Bedford Square, as to which area offered the loveliest women. Bets are placed and the debate is adjudicated by a passing Indigenous man, Coorabundy.
Coorabundy, who is holding the stakes, eventually tires of the conversation: 'You two big fools – you talkee here all night;/ Black fellow got de stakes – him hold 'em tight.' Coorabundy then 'decamps with the proceeds'.
