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 730 RUDYARD KIPLING'S VERSE

"I learned him his trade o' winter nights,

'Twixt Mardyk Fort and Dunkirk lights

On a five-knot tide with the forts a-firing.

(All round the Sands /)

"Before his beard began to shoot, I showed him the length of the Spaniard's foot And I reckon he clapped the boot on it later. (All round the Sands /)

"If there's a risk which you can make, That's worse than he was used to take Nigh every week in the way of his business; (All round the Sands /)

"If there's a trick that you can try, Which he hasn't met in time gone by, Not once or twice, but ten times over; (All round the Sands /)

"If you can teach him aught that's new,

(A-hayO! To me /) I'll give you Bruges and Niewport too, And the ten tall churches that stand between 'em!'

Storm along my gallant Captains !

(All round the Horn /)

THE JUGGLER'S SONG

"HEN the drums begin to beat

Down the street,

When the poles are fetched and guyed, When the tight-rope's stretched and tied, When the dance-girls make salaam, When the snake-bag wakes alarm,