Miss Kilmansegg<br><br>And<br><br>Her Precious Leg.<br><br>A Golden Legend.<br><br>Her Pedigree.<br><br>To trace the Kilmansegg pedigree,<br>To the very root of the family tree,<br>Were a task as rash as ridiculous:<br>Through antediluvian mists as thick<br>As London fog such a line to pick<br>Were enough, in truth to puzzle old Nick, -<br>Not to name Sir Harris Nicholas.<br><br>It wouldn't require much verbal strain<br>To trace the Kill man, perchance, to Cain;<br>But, waiving all such digressions,<br>Suffice it, according to family lore,<br>A Patriarch Kilmansegg lived of yore,<br>Who was famed for his great possessions.