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"`The lot fell on the youngest, The youngest of the three, That he should go a-sailing All on the salt sea, salt sea That he should go a-sailing All on the salt sea." "I know of no lad having been forced to go to sea against his will," said Harry, quietly. "Of whom do you speak? Tell me his name." She passed her hand over her brow, as if to collect her thoughts.
Good lack! when I was ta'en prisoner by the Turks a-sailing i' the Mary of London, and sold for a slave at Algiers, I escap'd, after two months, with Eli Sprat, a Gravesend man, in a small open boat. Well, we sail'd three days and nights, and all the time there was a small sea bird following, flying round and round us, and calling two notes that sounded for all the world like 'Wind'ard!
Then we had a mouth-organ solo or two, which naturally led on to songs. My turn came. I struck up the first verse of a sailor chantey as possessing at least the interest of novelty: Oh, once we were a-sailing, a-sailing were we, Blow high, blow low, what care we; And we were a-sailing to see what we could see, Down on the coast of the High Barbaree.
This exclamation, I thought, was caused by the voice of the quartermaster humming: "I'm a-sailing, I'm a-sailing on the sea, To a harbour where the wind is still" Almost immediately she said: "I think I will go below." Then, after a slight pause: "This is a liberal acquaintance for one day, Dr. Marmion; and, you know, we were not introduced." "No, Mrs.
"Aye, aye, it's me sure enough," replied my old ally of the Saucy Sall, shaking hands with great heartiness, as if he were really glad to see me again under such altered circumstances. "It's me sure enough, Master Leigh that is, unless I've got some double of a twin brother, as like me as two peas, a-sailing round in these latitudes!"
Nevertheless, the boys with whom he went to school never tired of calling him "Pirate," and would sometimes sing for his benefit that famous catchpenny song beginning thus: Oh, my name was Captain Brand, A-sailing, And a-sailing; Oh, my name was Captain Brand, A-sailing free. Oh, my name was Captain Brand, And I sinned by sea and land, For I broke God's just command, A-sailing free.
But pretty soon he struggled up astraddle and grabbed the bridle, a-reeling this way and that; and the next minute he sprung up and dropped the bridle and stood! and the horse a-going like a house afire too. He just stood up there, a-sailing around as easy and comfortable as if he warn't ever drunk in his life and then he begun to pull off his clothes and sling them.
But pretty soon he struggled up astraddle and grabbed the bridle, a-reeling this way and that; and the next minute he sprung up and dropped the bridle and stood! and the horse a-going like a house afire too. He just stood up there, a-sailing around as easy and comfortable as if he warn't ever drunk in his life and then he begun to pull off his clothes and sling them.
Tony sat on a little chair at her side, not very near, but still near enough to manifest a more friendly spirit than in the morning. Peter waited in the background while the song went on. I saw a ship a-sailing, a-sailing on the sea, And it was full of pretty things for Tony, Fay and me. There was sugar in the cabin and kisses in the hold "Whose kisses?" Tony asked suspiciously.
Ease that rope a little, Miss Éloise. Here we go! What will Murray say, Marlboro', when he sees me come sailing by with you? "'A-sailing and a-sailing, My love he left me sad; A-sailing and a-sailing, Let him come and make me glad!" sang Mr. St. George, and they went flying up the river.
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