Although no creature knew it
So many years ago!
Little Buttercup, not heeding their interruption, concluded her confession thus:
In time each little waif
Forsook his foster-mother,[11]
The well-born babe was Ralph—
Your Captain was the other!!!
Again the crew explained the situation to each other, that there might be no mistake about it:
They left their foster-mother;
The one was Ralph, our brother,