"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,