Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 374
ther could have knocked me down, I was so weak and pale,As up the masts its arms it passed And set each stitch of sail!I seized the wheel and laid the course; The wind a-freshening blew;The octopus, I found, was just As good as any crew I T was on the third day, starboard tack, Some fourteen knots… … OFF IN THE HAZE THERE MET MY GAZEA RAKISH PIRATE SHIP! T was then the octopus I saw, The cunning, artful moke!In each arm tucked, a pipe he sucked, And starboard blew the smoke.He coughed and puffed, and puffed and coughed-; T was then I saw the trick:The pirate crew could get no view Of us through…
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