The children didn’t exactly know what to do, but they stood there, holding the umbrellas over them, and Tommy was clasping his ship under his arm, when, all at once, out from behind a big tree, stepped a jolly sailorman, with a wooden leg, and as soon as he saw the children he began to sing this song:
“Oh, I’m a jolly-jolly sailorman,
I sail the ocean blue.
I’ve been in many, many, many lands,
But I’ve come back to you.
“So now we’ll sail, we’ll sail away again,
And o’er the seas we’ll roam.
And when we’ve sailed a million-billion miles
I’ll bring you all back home.”
“Ha! ha! How was that for a song, even if I have a wooden leg?” asked the sailorman. “Wasn’t that pretty good?”