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''is sitting on a barrel playing upon his pipes. This may surprise others but does not surprise''. Lifting a blunderbuss he strikes forlornly not at the boy but at the barrel, which is hurled across the deck. ''remains sitting in the air still playing upon his pipes. At this sight the great heart of breaks. That not wholly unheroic figure climbs the bulwarks murmuring ‘Floreat Etona,’ and prostrates himself into the water, where the crocodile is waiting for him open-mouthed. knows the purpose of this yawning cavity, but after what he has gone through he enters it like one greeting a friend.''

The curtain rises to show ''a very Napoleon on his ship. It must not rise again lest we see him on the poop in hat and cigars, and with a small iron claw.'')