The Quid, Or Tales of My Messmates: Being a Colection [!] of Yarns, Ditties, Quid-ditties, and Od-ditties. By a Steerage Passenger

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W. Strange, 1832 - 240 pagina's
 

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Pagina 5 - TWAS Saturday night, the twinkling stars Shone on the rippling sea ; No duty call'd the jovial tars, The helm was lash'd a-lee ; The ample can adorn'd the board, — Prepar'd to see it out, Each gave the girl that he ador'd, And push'd the grog about. Cried honest Tom, my Peg I'll toast, A frigate neat and trim, All jolly Portsmouth's...
Pagina 162 - It is a time of equality ; idlers, stewards and servants, barbers and sweepers, cooks and cooks' mates, doctors' mates and loblolly boys ; every man runs the same road, and hard and impenetrable is that soul that does not chime in with the old ditties, ' Pull away now, my Nancy 0 ! ' and the long
Pagina 9 - I'll toast, A frigate neat and trim, All jolly Portsmouth's favourite boast : I'd venture life and limb, Sail seven long years, and ne'er see land, With dauntless heart and stout, So tight a vessel to command : Then push the grog about. I'll give, cried little...
Pagina 162 - ... when all hands are turned up ; the motley group that man the bars, the fiddler stuck in a corner, the captain on the poop, encouraging the men to those desperate efforts that seem to the novice an attempt at pulling up the rocks by the root. It is a time of equality ; idlers, stewards and servants, barbers and sweepers, cooks and cooks...

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