An' 'e fights as though 'e'd been a-fightin' twenty times as long

As any other man that serves the Queen!

If you'd seen him when we got to where

The Modder's deep an' wet,

You'd a-knowed 'e was a' orf'cer hof the Queen!

There's a dozen of the enemy

That ain't forgot 'im yet—

For 'e run 'is sword clean through 'em for the Queen!

Oh, 'e aren't much on whiskers an' 'e aren't much on 'eight,

An' a year or two ago 'e was a-learnin' for to write,