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Sailors have, indeed, a passion for metamorphosing words, especially proper names. Those lie a little out of our track; but two instances are too good to be omitted: The "Bellerophon," of the British navy, was always known as the "Bully-ruffian," and the "Ville de Milan," a French prize, as the "Wheel-'em-along."
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