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Sergeant Bell, and His Raree-Show [by G. Mogridge].
Sergeant Bell and His Raree-Show - by G. Mogridge Author:Bell General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1839 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: THE SPANISH ARMADA. " That is right, my little man, take off your cap, you will see all the better, and there is something now more worth looking at than your cap. There's the deep ocean All in commotion. I have sailed on it when it ran mountains high, but it is now only a bit of a breeze; a capful of wind, as thesailors call it. You should see it in a storm, roaring and soaring, dashing and splashing, till it is all in a froth, something like soapsuds. Fine sight! shows the power of God, who can make the ocean come and go as obediently as if it were a little child. " A ship sails on the ocean all round the world. Did you ever see a fly run round an apple, an earwig creep round a turnip, or a snail crawl round the round heart of a cabbage? In just the same way, a ship sails round the world, going straight on till it comes to the place whence it set off. A fly, an earwig, and a snail, Will tell the course a ship will sail. " The ships on the right are English men-of-war and frigates. Old England's best bulwarks are her wooden walls. Look at the jolly jack tars! how they are peppering away at their enemies! ' Hearts of oak are our ships, jolly tars are our men, We'll fight, and we'll conquer, again, and again.' " I am no friend to fighting, unless our cause is a just one; but when tyranny and oppression oppose us, why then, fight away, my boys! When I was in the dragoons -- but, I can tell you about that, by and by. " If I could, I would show you the whales, and the sharks, and the porpoises, and the dolphins, the herrings, the lobsters, the crayfish, and all other h'sh that are found i...« less