FIGURE-HEADS.
“You never see a decent figure-’ead,
Not now,” Bill said;
“A fiddlin’ bit o’ scrollwork at the bow,
That’s the most now;
But Lord! I’ve seen some beauties, more ’n a few,
An’ some rare rum uns too.
“Folks in all sorts o’ queer old-fashioned rigs,
Fellers in wigs,
Chaps in cocked ’ats an’ ’elmets, lords an’ dukes.