A Mainsail Haul (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Excerpt from A Mainsail Haul

Now this Don Alfonso he was a terror, he was; for they've got a licker in those parts. If you put some of it on a piece Of paint-work - and this is gospel that I'm giving you - that paint it comes Off like you was using turps. Now Don Alfonso he was a terror at that licker - and that 's the sort Of Dago-boy Alfonso was.

Now Alfonso's mother was a widow, and he was her only child, like in the play.

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Excerpt from A Mainsail Haul

I yarned with ancient shipmen beside the galley range
And some were fond of women, but all were fond of change;
They sang their quavering chanties, all in a fo'c's'le drone,
And I was finely suited, if I had only known.

I rested in an ale-house that had a sanded floor,
Where seamen sat a-drinking and chalking up the score;
They yarned of ships and mermaids, of topsail sheets and slings,
But I was discontented; I looked for better things.

I heard a drunken fiddler, in Billy Lee's Saloon,
I brooked an empty belly with thinking of the tune:
I swung the doors disgusted as drunkards rose to dance,
And now I know the music was life and life's romance.

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.