DRAW-BRIDGES.

II.

Our John was a sailor, Sailor John,

A grizzly old sailor of Provincetown Bay,

And one queer old tale that he used to tell

By the bright fire-dogs to the boys now gone,

And the fisher-folk—I remember well.

He would tell it to us in his odd old way,

After the revels on Christmas Day,

And at evening after the hours of play.