StoryTitle("caps", "Little Billee ") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(119, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "There were three sailors of Bristol city ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Who took a boat and went to sea. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But first with beef and captain's biscuits ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And pickled pork they loaded she.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "There was gorging Jack and guzzling Jimmy, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And the youngest he was little Billee, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Now when they got as far as the Equator, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "They'd nothing left but one split pea. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Says gorging Jack to guzzling Jimmy,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "\"I am extremely hungaree.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To gorging Jack says guzzling Jimmy, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "\"We've nothing left, us must eat we.\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Says gorging Jack to guzzling Jimmy, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "\"With one another, we shouldn't agree! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "There's little Bill he's young and tender, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "We're old and tough, so let's eat he. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "\"Oh! Billy, we're going to kill and eat you, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "So undo the button of your chemie.\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When Bill received this information", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "He used his pocket-handerchie. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "\"First let me say my catechism,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Which my poor mammy taught to me.\" ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "\"Make haste, make haste,\" says guzzling Jimmy, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "While Jack pulled out his snickersnee.", "") ?>
PagePoem(120, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So Billy went up to the main-top gallant mast, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And down he fell on his bended knee.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "He scarce had come to the twelfth commandment ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "When up he jumps. \"There's land I see. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "\"Jerusalem and Madagascar,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And North and South Amerikee", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "There's the British flag a riding at anchor, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "With Admiral Napier, K.C.B.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So when they got aboard of the Admiral's ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "He hanged fat Jack and flogged Jimmy: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But as for little Bill he made him", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The Captain of a Seventy-three.", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—William Makepeace Thackeray.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
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