[Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling]@TWC D-Link bookCaptains Courageous CHAPTER II 19/47
North, away yonder--you'll hear him tune up in a minute--is Tom Platt.
Man-o'-war's man he was on the old Ohio--first of our navy, he says, to go araound the Horn.
He never talks of much else, 'cept when he sings, but be has fair fishin' luck. There! What did I tell you ?" A melodious bellow stole across the water from the northern dory. Harvey heard something about somebody's hands and feet being cold, and then: "Bring forth the chart, the doleful chart; See where them mountings meet! The clouds are thick around their heads, The mists around their feet." "Full boat," said Dan, with a chuckle.
"If he gives us 'O Captain' it's toppin' full." The bellow continued: "And naow to thee, O Capting, Most earnestly I pray That they shall never bury me In church or cloister grey." "Double game for Tom Platt.
He'll tell you all about the old Ohio to-morrow.
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