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,