The centipede was happy quite, Until the toad in fun Asked him which leg went after which, Which drove him into such a pitch He lay distracted in a ditch, Considering how to run.

-Craster, Mrs Edmund   d.1874
Attributed.

Gamp would certainly have drunk its little shoes right off its feet, as with our precious boy he did, and arterwards send the child a errand to sell his wooden leg for any money it 'ud fetch as matches in the rough, and bring it home in liquor.

-Dickens, CharlesJohn Huffam
^4  Mrs Gamp. Martin Chuzzlewit, ch.25.

A literary manöwith a wooden legöand all Print is open to him.

-Dickens, CharlesJohn Huffam
^5  Mr Boffin speaking of Silas  Wegg. Our Mutual Friend, bk.1, ch.5.

For here I leave my second leg, And the Forty-second Foot!

-Honorius of Autun
  'Faithless Nelly Gray'.