The chatterbox book of soldiers and sailors (1910)
Robinson, Anna, Weir, Harrison · Boston, D. Estes · leaf 46
and thirty-eight years before theChrist Child slept in the cattle-shed at Bethle-hem Judea, Belshazzar, King of Babylon, gavea great feast Suddenly in the midst of therevelry a hand was seen writing on the wall.None of the Babylonian wise men could readthe writing. But Daniel the captive Jew did.… … THE DISCONTENTED SAILOR TACK would be a sailor,^ Sail the ocean blue. With a ho-yo, ho-yo-ho, Nothing else to do. So he joined the squadron, But he found full soon. It was work, and work, and work,Morning, night, and noon. Polishing the brasses. Scrubbing up the decks,Climbing up the rigging.…
Children's literature, American
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