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,... The "Bab" Ballads: Much Sound & Little Sense - Page 64by William Schwenck Gilbert - 1901 - 184 pagesFull view - About this book
| American essays - 1920 - 1146 pages
...a sea-faring person, he might well have claimed, in the words of the lamented Gilbert, — Oh, I am the cook and the captain bold, And the mate of the Nancy brig, And the bo'sun tight, and the midshipmite, And the crew of the captain's gig. I now perceived the nature of the activities he... | |
| 1865 - 472 pages
...only ten of the Nancy's men Said ' Here 1 ' to the muster roll. "There was me and the cook and tho 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... | |
| American literature - 1880 - 1210 pages
...seventy-seven o* soul, And only ten of the Nancy* ь men Said ' Here I* to the muster-roll. "There was me, the cook, and the captain bold, And the mate of the Nancy brier, And the boVun tight, and the midshipmite. And the crew oí the captain's gig. " A month we were... | |
| sir William Schwenck Gilbert - 1870 - 174 pages
...pretty nigh all o' the crew was drowned (There was seventy-seven o' soul) And only ten of the Nancy's men Said ' Here!' to the muster roll. " There was...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... | |
| Edmund Routledge - 1871 - 194 pages
...pretty nigh all of the crew was drowned (There was seventy-seven o' soul), And only ten of the Nancy's men Said ' Here !' to the muster roll " There was...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... | |
| Readers - 1884 - 794 pages
...pretty nigh all of the crew was drowned, (There was seventy-seven o' fioul,) And only ten of the Nancy's men ' • Said ' Here ! ' to the muster roll. "There...mate of the Nancy brig, And the bo'sun tight, and the midshipmite, And the crew of the captain's gig. " For a month we'd rmither wittles nor drink, Till... | |
| American poetry - 1872 - 900 pages
...(There was seventy-seven o' soul) ; And only ten of the Nancy's men Said ' Here ' to the muster-roll. l day I have outlived, and yet I am not old ; And when I look on this, the petty spray a bo' sun tight and a midshipmite, And the crew of the captain's gig. "For a month we *d neither wittles... | |
| George Manville Fenn - Wit and humor - 1899 - 534 pages
...o' soul), And only ten of the Nancy's men Said ' Here ! ' to the muster rolL. "There was me, and tho 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... | |
| Book - 1874 - 174 pages
...pretty nigh all of the crew was drowned (There was seventy-seven o' soul), And only ten of the Nancy's men Said ' Here !' to the muster roll. " There was...Nancy brig, And the bo'sun tight, and a midshipmite, And the crew of the captain's gig. "For a month we'd neither wittlcs nor drink, Till a-hungry we did... | |
| Alvah C. Beecher - Elocution - 1874 - 234 pages
...pretty nigh all o' the crew was drowned, (There was seventy-seven o' soul), And only ten of the Nancy's men Said ' Here !' to the muster roll. " There was...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... | |
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