 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
 | William Dwight Whitney - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1890 - 320 pages
...(mid'ship-mit). ». [< midship-s + mite2, this being substituted for man.] A very small midshipman. [Ludicrous.] Oh, I am a cook and a captain bold, And the mate of the " Nancy " brig, And a bo'sun tight, and a midshipmite. WS Gilbert, Yarn of the Nancy Bell. midships... | |
 | English literature - 1890 - 632 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... | |
 | Mrs. Grace Townsend - English poetry - 1890 - 640 pages
...And I never lark nor play; But I sit and croak, and a single joke I have — which is to say: " 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 !" — WS Gilbert.... | |
 | Grace Townsend - English poetry - 1891 - 570 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. Amd a bo'sun tight, and a midshipmite. And the crew of the captain's gig." And he shook... | |
 | P. Garrett - 1892 - 906 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 have, which is to say: "'Oh. I am a eook and a captain bold, And the mate of the Nancy brig, And a bo'sun tight, and a midshipmite, And... | |
 | Willard W. Glazier - Mississippi River - 1892 - 540 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 midahipmile, And the crew and pilot too;" not because he had... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - American poetry - 1893 - 132 pages
...For a vessel 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! " TO PH(EBE.... | |
 | David Hoekzema - English poetry - 1893 - 368 pages
...drops, For a weasel 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!'" WS GlLBEBT.... | |
 | American poetry - 1893 - 472 pages
...For a vessel 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! " TO PHŒBE.... | |
 | College student newspapers and periodicals - 1894 - 568 pages
...requiring a quotation of ten lines from the "Ancient Mariner," one student started off boldly with, " I am a cook, and a captain bold, And the mate of the Nancy brig," and gave the first twelve lines of this stirring ballad. Another quoted a familiar passage... | |
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