Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 374
settled to a calm! Then, as I feared, the smoke it cleared; The pirates saw us now!I knew it well when whizzing fell A shot across our bow!I saw the villains lower boats And row em for their lives;Across the swell with arm and yell They shook their glittering knives! I aint no skeery kind of man,… … IN EACH ARM TUCKED, A PIPE HE SUCKED,AND STARBOARD BLEW THE SMOKE. 894 THE OCTOPUS
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