About his old ship called the Polly.
“Yes! ‘sixpence a head,’ was all that he said,
When we started away from the shore,
But alas and alack, he refused to go back
Till we all of us paid sixpence more.
“Then ho! heave ho! The wild winds did blow,
And we none of us felt very jolly,
When we paid the old humbug just double his fare,
And deeply regretted our folly.”
They all clapped their hands when he had finished, and Girlie laughingly said, “she hoped that he was not the Mariner referred to in the song.”