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Up comes the skipper from down below,

And he looks aloft and he looks alow

And he looks alow and he looks aloft,

And it's, "Coil up your ropes, there, fore and aft"

With a big Bo!

To!

Fal de rai de, ri do day!

--Boston Shanty

Captain Mayo strode straight to the men at the wheel "Give me those

spokes!" he co, boys!"

"Ay, ay, sir!" assented Mr Speed, giving the resisting Dolph a violent

shove

When Captain Candage began to curse, Captain Mayo showed that he had a

voice and vocabulary of his own He fairly roared down the master of the

Polly

"Now shut up!" he ordered the duape "This is no tiether to save our lives Doith 'eht," declared theon

her except a double-reefed mitten with the thumb brailed up"