Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 223
ore they d so much as rung the bell, But for that there cat! A body with half an eye can see That she s most especially fond of me ; She follows round wherever I be. So there she sat,With one eye on the men and one on the sea, Did the galley cat. Vol. XIV.—14. What did she do ? She flung me a line… … And he hauled me up—but I make no doubt,If he had nt, slie would a pulled me out.For she knew right well what she was about; She warnt no flat.But you ought to have heard the sailors shout For the galley cat ! She—flung you a rope ? gasped the midshipmite,As if he could nt have heard aright, I 11…
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