“They didn't think much to the Ocean,
The waves, they was fiddlin' and small,
There was no wrecks and nobody drownded,
Fact, nothing to laugh at at all.”

—  Marriott Edgar

"The Lion and Albert", line 9.
Albert, 'Arold and Others (1938)

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