Exercisin’—on the green,
A silver butting—flew off her waistcoat,
And her lily-white throat was seen.”
Again the singer stopped.
“Now, hold on, there’s a fourth verse,” declared Joe eagerly.
“Let’s see—so there is,” confessed Ed sleepily, and after a long pull at his pipe, resumed slowly:
“When the captin—see this action,
See the deed—that she had done,
He made her gineral—of the army,
Of the army—ninety-one——”