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Title: Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag, Vol. 5
Jimmy's Cruise in the Pinafore, Etc.

Author: Louisa M. Alcott

Release Date: August 4, 2007 [EBook #22234]

Language: English

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AUNT JO'S SCRAP-BAG.

VOL V.

JIMMY'S CRUISE IN THE PINAFORE, ETC.

BY LOUISA M. ALCOTT,

AUTHOR OF "LITTLE WOMEN," "AN OLD-FASHIONED GIRL," "LITTLE MEN,"
"HOSPITAL SKETCHES."

BOSTON:
ROBERTS BROTHERS.
1880.

_Copyright_,
BY LOUISA M. ALCOTT.
1879.

UNIVERSITY PRESS:
JOHN WILSON AND SON, CAMBRIDGE.

* * * * *

[Illustration: SIR JOSEPH PORTER, K.C.B.]

I am the monarch of the Sea,
The ruler of the Queen's Navee,--
When at anchor here I ride,
My bosom swells with pride,
And I snap my fingers at a foeman's taunts.

[Illustration: COUSIN HEBE.]

And so do his sisters, and his cousins, and his aunts
His sisters and his cousins!
Whom he reckons by the dozens,
And his aunts!

[Illustration: RALPH RACKSTRAW.]

"I am the lowliest tar
That sails the water.
And you, proud maiden, are
My captain's daughter."

[Illustration: JOSEPHINE.]

"Refrain, audacious tar.
Your suit from pressing;
Remember what you are,
And whom addressing."

[Illustration: LITTLE BUTTERCUP.]

For I am called Little Buttercup,--dear Little Buttercup,
Though I never could tell why;
But still I'm called Buttercup,--poor Little Buttercup,
Sweet Little Buttercup I!

[Illustration: CAPTAIN CORCORAN.]

Fair moon, to thee I sing
Bright regent of the heavens;
Say, why is every thing
Either at sixes or at sevens!

[Illustration: BILL BOBSTAY, THE BOS'N]

He is an Englishman!
For he himself has said it,
And it's greatly to his credit
That he is an Englishman.

[Illustration: DICK DEADEYE.]