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"Ba-a-ck ye-e-r to-o-psails, will ye?" shouted Amos Parr. But the delighted Esquimaux leader, who entered quite into the joke, had no intention whatever of backing his top-sails; he administered another crack to the team, which yelled madly, and, bounding over a wide chasm in the ice, came down with a crash which snapped the line of the leading dog and set it free.
Such is the rhyme of "Uncle Peleg," or "Pillick," as it is pronounced, probably an historical ballad concerning some departed worthy of the Folger family of Nantucket. It begins "Old Uncle Pillick he built him a boat On the ba-a-ck side of Nantucket P'int; He rolled up his trowsers and set her afloat From the ba-a-ck side of Nantucket P'int." Like "Christabel," this remains a fragment.
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