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Reviewed on April 1, 1992
K-Gr 3 An old poem, dating from 1885, illustrated with boisterously comical scenes of 19th-century seamen aboard a wildly careening sailing ship. The pompous captain in gold braid and the jolly tars in striped shirts cavort across the full-page, white-bordered paintings--now up, now down--as the ship sails "in the teeth of the booming gale." The nonsense of the verse is pictur...Log In or Sign Up to Read More




