Two weeks had gone by, and our damsel had bent

Whatever of strength she possessed to attain

The “true Grecian bend,” and it was not in vain.

The day now arrived for the startling “début,”

And our heroine smiling emerged to the view

Of the Boulevards, where “tout le monde” in a maze

At the strange apparatus in wonder did gaze.

This strange apparatus, as I before said,

Perched on heels that supported a hump on the head,

A hump on the back and a crook in the arm