And talking of “caulking,”

And “quarter-deck walking,”

“Fore and aft,”

And “abaft,”

“Hookers,” “barkeys,” and “craft,”

(At which Mr. Poole has so wickedly laught);

Of “binnacles,” “bilboes,” the boom called the “spanker,”

The best “bower cable,” the “jib,” and “sheet anchor;”

Of “lower-deck guns,” and of “broadsides and chases;”

Of “taff-rails” and “top-sails,” and “splicing main braces,”