"Before you had those timber toes,

Your love I did allow,

But then, you know, you stand upon

Another footing now!"

"Oh, Nelly Gray! Oh, Nelly Gray!

For all your jeering speeches,

At duty's call, I left my legs

In Badaj os's -breaches!'

"Why then," said she, "you've lost the feet

Of legs in war's alarms,