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42 So Billy went up to the main-topgallant mast,

And down he fell on his bended knee.

He scarce had come to the Twelfth Commandment

When up he jumps, "There's land I see.

"Jerusalem and Madagascar,

And North and South Amerikee:

There's the British flag a-riding at anchor,

With Admiral Napier, K. C. B."

So when they got aboard of the Admiral's

He hanged fat Jack and flogged Jimmee;

But as for little Bill, he made him

The Captain of a Seventy-three.

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The Butterfly and the Bee.