 When I ups with his heels, and smothers his squeals In the scum of the boiling broth. "And I eat that cook in a week or less, And — as I eating be The last of his chops, why, I almost drops, For a...  Fun - Page 2411865Full view - About this book
 | American poetry - 1881 - 520 pages
...almost drops, For a wessel in sight I see. " And I never larf, and I never smile, And I never lark nor play, But I sit and croak, and a single joke 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 ! " WILLIAM S.... | |
 | American poetry - 1882 - 354 pages
...I almost drops, For a wessel in sight I see. "And I never larf, and I never smile, And I never lark nor play, But I sit and croak, and a single joke 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 ! " "Uncle -rflellich... | |
 | Thomas W. Handford - Recitations, American - 1881 - 438 pages
...almost drops, For a wessel in sight I see. " And I never larf, and I never smile, And I never lark nor play ; But I sit and croak, and a single joke...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.' " WS GILBERT.... | |
 | George Manville Fenn - Wit and humor - 1899 - 530 pages
...sight I see. " And I never grieve, and I never smile, And I never larf nor play; But I sit and ci oak, and a, single joke I have — which is to say : " Oh, I am a cook, and a captain bold, And tho mate of the Naui-y bri<i, And a bo'sun tight, and a inidshipmite, And the crew of the captain's... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Rufus Edmonds Shapley - Wit and humor - 1884 - 460 pages
...For a wessel in sight I see I "And I never larf, and I never smile, And I never lark nor play, But sit and croak, and a single joke I have — which...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! " 196 THE... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Rufus Edmonds Shapley - Wit and humor - 1884 - 458 pages
...For a wessel in sight I see ! "And I never larf, and I never smile, And I never lark nor play, But sit and croak, and a single joke I have — which is to say : "Oh, I am a cook and a captain bold, 196 ГНЕ BISHOP OF RUM-TO-FOO. FROM east and south the holy clan Of bishops gathered to a man ; To... | |
 | Willard W. Glazier - Canoes and canoeing - 1887 - 476 pages
...had christened the Rob Roy, though not " an elderly naval man," might have appropriately recited : "Oh, I am a cook and a captain bold, And the mate of this canoe ; And a bo'sun tight and a midshipmite, And the crew and pilot too;" (111) not because he... | |
 | F. A. H. Eyles - English poetry - 1889 - 416 pages
...wessel in sight I see ! * * * * " And I never larf, and I never smile, And I never lark nor play, But sit and croak, and a single joke I have — which...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 !' " THE WAY OF... | |
 | Willard W. Glazier - Mississippi River - 1889 - 524 pages
...had christened the Rob Roy, though not "an elderly naval man," might have appropriately recited : " Oh, I am a cook and a captain bold, And the mate of thia canoe ; And a bo'sun tight and a midshipmile, And the crew and pilot too;" not because he had... | |
 | Jacob W. Shoemaker - Readers - 1881 - 226 pages
...weedy and long was he ; And I heard this wight on the shore, recite, In a singular minor key : — " O, 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... | |
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