Page:Departmental Ditties and Ballads and Barrack-Room Ballads, Kipling, 1899.djvu/96

82 And there was Hans the Blue-eyed Dane,

Bull-throated, bare of arm,

Who carried on his hairy chest

The maid Ultruda's charm—

The little silver crucifix

That keeps a man from harm.

And there was Jake Without-the-Ears,

And Pamba the Malay,

And Carboy Gin the Guinea cook,

And Luz from Vigo Bay,

And Honest Jack who sold them slops

And harvested their pay.

And there was Salem Hardieker,

A lean Bostonian he—

Russ, German, English, Halfbreed, Finn,

Yank, Dane, and Portugee,

At Fultah's Fisher's boarding-place

They rested from the sea.

Now Anne of Austria shared their drinks,

Collinga knew her fame,

From Tarnau in Galicia

To Jaun Bazar she came,