‘No,’ returned Sally, ‘I never have. And, if we play together, it will be much better if you have a boy and I have a girl, instead of having them just exactly alike.’
‘I think his name is pretty, too,’ said Alice thoughtfully. ‘Jack Tar.’
‘That means a sailor,’ said Sally, who was wise in ways of the sea. ‘And Nancy Lee means a sailor girl, you know. There is a song about her. Father whistles it.
‘“See, there she stands
And waves her hands
Upon the quay,
And every day
When I’m away
She’ll watch for me,”’
sang Sally. ‘That is the song about Nancy Lee.’