I’ve lived among ’em an I ort to know.
And yet among those natives there are some
As mild as lambs, and good and humoursome;
Who never fight no more than an old hen,
Such difference there is in mortal men.
I’ll tell you now a tale, to make you sport,
Of one who chanced among this gentle sort.”
THE STORY OF SAMUEL JACKSON
I’ll tell you of a sailor now, a tale that can’t be beat,
His name was Samuel Jackson, and his height was seven feet;