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Says, "There's many million men would have done the like again,
But you didn't, and, my man, there's hope for you.

  "Start sheets and sail for the Mole—
  For the old rotten Mole of Marimolena;
   There's maybe some one there
   That you're longing to treat fair,
  On the dismal, woeful Mole of Marimolena."

And other deep-sea chanteys,—the one in which the pirate found the Lady in the C-a-a-bin and slivered off her head, or back to Red Renard, or further to his own campaign song, and furthest of all to the bad, bad young dog of a crow. Then he got quite out of breath, and pausing for a moment to catch it, noted for the first time the extreme bitterness of the cold. It stung the face like insects. "Woof!" he said. "And now for lost time."

Again he stepped out, but with each step the snow became deeper, and presently he floundered in to his waist. "Must be a ditch!" he said, turning a little to the right and exclaiming, "Thought so!"