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I passed a hand over my eyes, and at that moment Mr. Fett, who had been snatching an hour's sleep below and no man better deserved it thrust his head up through the broken hatchway, carolling "To all you ladies now at land We men at sea indite, But first would have you understand How hard it is to write: Our paper, pen, and ink and we Roll up and down our ships at sea, With a fa-la-LA!"
He trolled an old song, slightly adapted "Here's a health unto Sir Oliver, With a fal-la-la, lala-la-la; Confusion to his enemies, With a fa-la-la, lala-la-la; And he that will not drink his health, I wish him neither wit nor wealth, Nor yet a rope to hang himself With a fa-la-la, lala-la-la." The effort was applauded. Above the applause the bull voice of Mr. Silk shouted,
But Nat, having passed through a real gale, had saved not sufficient fondness for his verse to blush, for it. We should have been mournful for old Worthyvale, but that night we knew only that it was good, being young, to have escaped death. Under the stars we made bad jokes on Mr. Badcock's sea-sickness, and sang in chorus to Mr. Fett's solos "With a fa-la, fa-la, fa-la-la!
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