Whole buckets of oil on the top of his hair,

And no one who loved him omitted to speak

In rapture of tresses so splendidly sleek.

He said (and who questions what mariners say?)

He brushed them and combed them each hour of the day.

For, up on the mast in the wildest of seas,

He never neglected such duties as these.

And so, as no chance he would lazily miss,

That singular sailor looked something like this.

Doctor Dolittle meets a Londoner in Paris