But “Darny,” sez I, “if that’s your game,

I reck’n I must kill ee fust.”

The Master jumped ’bout the French ship

And tore down all her colours,

And us jumped ’bout the French ship, too,

A whoppin’ them foreign fellers.

As for the chap as Master threat’n’d

I beat that Parley-vous,

From the niddick down his lanky back,

Till he squeaked out “Mortbleu!”