With here a splash an’ there a dash, an’ a rip-
ple shootin’ through.
An’ the Old Man jumped six feet from deck;
he hollered an’ says, says he:
“Here comes the biggest mackerel school since
the Lord set off the sea!
An’ right behind, if I hain’t blind, by the prong-
jawed dog-fish’s bark,
Is a finnin’ that mis’able hog of the sea, that
liverless, shag-eyed shark!”