For he felt as he never had felt before,
Insanely glad in fact.
And why? In that vessel that left the bay
His mother-in-law had sail’d
To a tropical country far away,
Where tigers and snakes prevailed.
And more than one of his creditors too—
Those objects of constant dread—
Had taken berths in that ship “Curlew,”
Whose sails were so blithely spread.