on their silver trumpets quite a long while. Heart alive,
little maid! I never meaned to make you look sorrowful----'

* * * * *

Bunny Lewknor in his sackcloth petticoats burst through the birch scrub
wiping his forehead.

'We've got the stick to rights now! She've been a whole hatful o'
trouble. You come an' ride her home, Mus' Dan and Miss Una!'

They found the proud wood-gang at the foot of the slope, with the log
double-chained on the tug.

'Cattiwow, what are you going to do with it?' said Dan, as they
straddled the thin part.

'She's going down to Rye to make a keel for a Lowestoft fishin' boat,
I've heard. Hold tight!'

Cattiwow cracked his whip, and the great log dipped and tilted, and
leaned and dipped again, exactly like a stately ship upon the high
seas.

FRANKIE'S TRADE

Old Horn to All Atlantic said:
(_A-hay O! To me O!_)
'Now where did Frankie learn his trade?
For he ran me down with a three-reef mains'le.'
(_All round the Horn!_)

Atlantic answered:--'Not from me!
You'd better ask the cold North Sea,
For he ran me down under all plain canvas.'
(_All round the Horn!_)

The North Sea answered:--'He's my man,
For he came to me when he began--
Frankie Drake in an open coaster.'
(_All round the Sands!_)

'I caught him young and I used him sore,
So you never shall startle Frankie more,
Without capsizing Earth and her waters.
(_All round the Sands!_)

'I did not favour him at all,
I made him pull and I made him haul--
And stand his trick with the common sailors.
(_All round the Sands!_)

'I froze him stiff and I fogged him blind,
And kicked him home with his road to find
By what he could see of a three-day snow-storm.
(_All round the Sands!_)

'I learned him his trade o' winter nights,
'Twixt Mardyk Fort and Dunkirk lights
On a five-knot tide with the forts a-firing.
(_All round the Sands!_)

'Before his beard began to shoot,
I showed him the length of the Spaniard's foot--
And I reckon he clapped the boot on it later.
(_All round the Sands!_)

'If there's a risk which you can make
That's worse than he was used to take
Nigh every week in the way of his business;
(_All round the Sands!_)

'If there's a trick that you can try