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 FRANKIE'S TRADE

to All Atlantic said:

(A-hay O! To me O!)

'Now where did Frankie learn his trade?

For he ran me down with a three-reef mains'le.'

(All round the Horn!)

Atlantic answered:—'Not from me!

You'd better ask the cold North Sea,

For he ran me down under all plain canvas.'

(All round the Horn!)

The North Sea answered:—'He's my man

For he came to me when he began—

Frankie Drake in an open coaster.'

(All round the Sands!)

'I caught him young and I used him sore,

So you never shall startle Frankie more,

Without capsizing Earth and her waters.'

(All round the Sands!)

'I did not favour him at all,

I made him pull and I made him haul—

And stand his trick with the common sailors.

(All round the Sands!)

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