A Nautical Lay.
" Now -write me instanter a nautical lay !" The editor said to the poet one day. " A nautical lay !" thought the poet, aghast. " I feel •a* at sea' when I think of a mast !" He went home, and got out pen, paper, and Ink, Arw_ tapped -at H£__ _ox-__ne__di until it gprew pink ; And then, after pouring some rum down his t/hroat. This is the nautical lay that he wrote : — "The good ship Miranda her anchor did weigh ; The puMets on board didn't look very gay. But one ot them laid a big egg ev'ry day !" "*- And that wae the end of ham " nautical lay l"
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Bruce Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 3099, 15 September 1899, Page 6
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108A Nautical Lay. Bruce Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 3099, 15 September 1899, Page 6
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