Give me but half your Latin and Greek,
I 'll never again touch trigger!
"Still, tastes are tastes, allow me!
Allow, too, where there 's keenness
For Sport, there 's little likelihood
Of a man's displaying meanness!"
So, put on my mettle, I interposed.
"Will you hear my story?" quoth I.
Never mind how long since it happed,
I sat, as we sit, in a bothy;