"Once more, my gallant boys!" he cried: "Three times! - you know the fable, - (I'll make it thirty," muttered he, "But I will lay the cable!") (John Godfrey Saxe)

"Once more, my gallant boys!" he cried: "Three times! - you know the fable, - (I'll make it thirty," muttered he, "But I will lay the cable!")

John Godfrey Saxe

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