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THE FREEDOM OF THE SEAS
"There was an old man of Limerick
Who said: 'I'm the boy as can trim a rick.'
They gave him a fork,
But he ran off to Cork.
I forget if his name it was Jim or Mick."
"I guess," said Nelson, "the supper is on me."
All the rest of the way back to Queenstown Tip invented limericks, until Nelson said despairingly that he wished he had never mentioned the things!
