Bred almost as well as himself,
But one day he pecked, and she fell, at a fence,
So they said he must go on the shelf:
He was put up and sold by auction,
And as he looked well, and was sound,
He was bought by a man in the army,
For a matter of fifty pound.
His new master found him perfect,
Fast, and at fences bold;
But the regiment was ordered to India,