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Which was the occasion, says Mr Vincent, of the composing by a boatswain of that rollicking chanty: -Pope Peter's but a pissabed.
There, I found a virtuous boatswain in His Majesty's service,-a most excellent man, though I could have wished his trousers not quite so tight in some places, and not quite so loose in others,-who knocked all the little men's hats over their eyes, though he was very generous and brave, and who wouldn't hear of anybody's paying taxes, though he was very patriotic.
Wopsle's (who had never been heard of before) coming in with a star and garter on, as a plenipotentiary of great power direct from the Admiralty, to say that the Swabs were all to go to prison on the spot, and that he had brought the boatswain down the Union Jack, as a slight acknowledgment of his public services.
I have a boatswain who pipes, Livesey; so things shall go man-o'-war fashion on board the good ship Hispaniola.
And I was going to sea myself, to sea in a schooner, with a piping boatswain and pig-tailed singing seamen, to sea, bound for an unknown island, and to seek for buried treasure!
We never had a night at the Admiral Benbow when I had half the work; and I was dog-tired when, a little before dawn, the boatswain sounded his pipe and the crew began to man the capstan-bars.
Gray, following close behind me, had cut down the big boatswain ere he had time to recover from his last blow.
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