“ And those who do escape the waves,
⁠Let them be well befriended.
The Sailor goes where his duty calls,
⁠And dreads no kind of danger;
When round him flies the Cannon-balls,
⁠His heart ne’er fears a stranger. ”

“ Derry down, down, down, derry down.
Since we’re told to believe only half what we hear,
Ev’ry tale we attempt should from fiction be clear,
Probability carefully keeping in view;
Example, I'll tell a short story or two.
Derry down, &c.
Once a man advertis’d the metropolis round,
He’d leap off the monument on to the ground,
But when just half way down, felt some nervous attack,
Grew frighten’d, reflected, turn’d round, and jumped back
Derry down, &c.
A boatswain, who ne’er had seen Punch or his wife,
To a puppet-shew went, the first time in his life ”

“ When sober sae sour, ye’ll fight wi' a flea;
That's a blyth sight to the bairnies and me,
⁠When todlin hame. todlen hame,
⁠When round as a neep ye come todlen hame
FINIS.
This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. ”