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adored AGIB ALACK-A-DEY-AH ALICE ALICE BROWN ANGELINA ANGUS M'CLAN Bab Bab BAB BALLADS BAINES CAREW beautiful Bishop blushed bo'sun tight bogy BORRIA BUNGALEE BOO Canonbury CAPTAIN BAGG captain bold CAPTAIN REECE captain's gig Chickeraboo CLONGLOCKETTY ANGUS CORALINE crew cried curate DALILAH DE DARDY dancing daughter dear DOH-REH-MI-FAH DOODLE-DUM-DEH ELLEN M'JONES ABERDEEN Especially ELLEN M'JONES exclaimed eyes FREDDY friends gentle pieman ghost girl goblin GREEN and HARRIET hair HANCE HARRIET HALE heard Hooe HOPLEY PORTER JOHN kings knew little TOOTLE-TUM-TEH Lord LORENZO DE LARDY loved maid maiden marry MARTIN TUPPER MICAH midshipmite mind never p'raps pantomime PECKHAM RYE PETER pibrochs PIERRE play Poor rich pretty PRIVATE JAMES remark you'll sum REVEREND round Saracen Sassenach SAUCE MAYONNAISE sigh smiled soul SOWLS tell THOMSON GREEN thou TORBAY TROUBADOUR Turk twaddle twaddle twaddle twaddle twaddle twum weep Willow winked worthy young Zoetrope
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Page 71 - I die, my friend," quoth I, And "Exactly so," quoth he. 'Says he, "Dear JAMES, to murder me Were a foolish thing to do, For don't you see that you can't cook me, While I can — and will — cook you...
Page 5 - The Captain saw the dame that day— Addressed her in his playful way— "And did it want a wedding ring? It was a tempting ickle sing! "Well, well, the chaplain I will seek, We'll all be married this day week At yonder church upon the hill; It is my duty, and I will!" The sisters, cousins, aunts, and niece, And widowed Ma of CAPTAIN REECE, Attended there as they were bid; It was their duty, and they did.
Page 69 - Oh, I am a cook and a captain bold, And the mate of the Nancy brig, And a bo 'sun tight, and a midshipmite, And the crew of the captain's gig.' And he shook his fists and he tore his hair, Till I really felt afraid, For I couldn't help thinking the man had been drinking, And so I simply said...
Page 10 - They went, those minions true, To Assesmilk-cum-Worter, And told their errand to The REVEREND HOPLEY PORTER. "What?" said that reverend gent, "Dance through my hours of leisure? Smoke? — bathe myself with scent? Play croquet? Oh, with pleasure! "Wear all my hair in curl? Stand at my door and wink — so At every passing girl? My brothers, I should think so! "For years I've longed for some Excuse for this revulsion: Now that excuse has come I do it on compulsion!!!
Page 155 - No other could wake such detestable groans, With reed and with chaunter — with bag and with drones: All day and all night he delighted the chiels With sniggering pibrochs and jiggety reels. He'd clamber a mountain and squat on the ground, And the neighbouring maidens would gather around To list to his pipes and to gaze in his e'en, Especially ELLEN M'JONES ABERDEEN.
Page 155 - But this is a matter, you'll readily own, That isn'ta question of tailors alone. A Sassenach chief may be bonily built, He may purchase a sporran, a bonnet, and kilt; Stick a skean in his hose — wear an acre of stripes — But he cannot assume an affection for pipes. Clonglocketty's pipings all night and all day Quite frenzied poor Pattison Corby Torbay ; The girls were amused at his singular spleen, Especially Ellen McJones Aberdeen.
Page 150 - ... weather still). For a week from ten to four I was fastened to the floor, While a mercenary wopped me with a will. They branded me and broke me on a wheel, And they left me in an hospital to heal; And, upon my solemn word, I have never never heard What those Tartars had determined to reveal. But that day of sorrow, misery, and rage, I shall carry to the Catacombs of Age, Photographically lined On the tablet of my mind, When a yesterday has faded from its page.
Page 183 - For shame," said FATHER PAUL, "my erring daughter! On my word This is the most distressing news that I have ever heard. Why, naughty girl, your excellent papa has pledged your hand To a promising young robber, the lieutenant of his band ! "This...
Page 157 - I declare, Elicited something resembling an air. It was wild — it was fitful — as wild as the breeze — It wandered about into several keys; It was jerky, spasmodic, and harsh, I'm aware ; But still it distinctly suggested an air. The Sassenach screamed, and the Sassenach danced...
Page 69 - There was me and the cook and the captain bold, And the mate of the Nancy brig, And the bo'sun tight, and a midshipmite, And the crew of the captain's gig." "For a month we'd neither wittles nor drink, Till a-hungry we did feel, So we drawed a lot, and accordin' shot The captain for our meal.