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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=384982" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Tearful Tale Of Captain Dan</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A sinner was old Captain Dan;<br>His wives guv him no rest:<br>He had one wife to East Skiddaw<br>And one to Skiddaw West.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now Ann Eliza was the name<br>Of her at East Skiddaw;<br>She was the most cantankerous<br>Female you ever saw.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I don’t know but one crosser-grained,<br>And of this Captain Dan<br>She was the wife at Skiddaw West—<br>She was Eliza Ann.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Well, this old skeesicks, Captain Dan,<br>He owned a ferryboat;<br>From East Skiddaw to Skiddaw West<br>That vessel used to float.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She was as trim a ferry-craft<br>As ever I did see,<br>And on each end a p’inted bow<br>And pilothouse had she.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She had two bows that way, so when<br>She went acrost the sound<br>She could, to oncet, run back ag’in<br>Without a-turnin’ round.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now Captain Dan he sailed that boat<br>For nigh on twenty year<br>Acrost that sound and back ag’in,<br>Like I have stated here.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And never oncet in all them years<br>Had Ann Eliza guessed<br>That Dan he had another wife<br>So nigh as Skiddaw West.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Likewise, Eliza Ann was blind,<br>Howas she never saw<br>As Dan he had another wife<br>Acrost to East Skiddaw.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The way he fooled them female wives<br>Was by a simple plan<br>That come into the artful brain<br>Of that there Captain Dan.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">With paint upon that ferry-craft,<br>In letters plain to see,<br>Upon the bow— to wit, both ends—<br>Her name he painted she.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Upon the bow toward East Skiddaw<br>This sinful Captain Dan<br>He painted just one single word—<br>The same which it was 'Ann';</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And on the bow toward Skiddaw West<br>He likewise put one name,<br>And not no more; and I will state<br>'Eliza' was that same.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thus, when she berthed to Skiddaw West<br>Eliza Ann could see<br>How Dan for love and gratitood<br>Had named her after she;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And likewise when to East Skiddaw<br>That boat bow-foremost came,<br>His Ann Eliza plain could see<br>The vessel bore her name.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thuswise for nigh on twenty year,<br>As I remarked before<br>Dan cumfuscated them two wives<br>And sailed from shore to shore.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I reckon he might, to this day,<br>Have kept his sinful ways<br>And fooled them trustin’ female wives,<br>Except there come a haze:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It was a thick November haze<br>Accompanied by frost,<br>And Dan, in steerin’ ‘crost the sound,<br>He got his bearin’s lost.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So Dan he cast his anchor out,<br>And anchored on the sound;<br>And when the haze riz some next day,<br>His boat had swung clean round.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So, not bethinkin’ how it was,<br>Dan steered for Skiddaw West;<br>For he had sot up all that night,<br>And shorely needed rest.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Well, when into his ferry-slip<br>His ferry-craft he ran,<br>Upon the shore he seen his wife:<br>To wit, Eliza Ann.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Says he, 'I’ll tie this vessel up<br>And rest about a week;<br>I need a rest,' and ‘t was just then<br>He heard an awful shriek.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'O Villyun!' shrieked Eliza Ann.<br>'Oh! What—what do I see?<br>You don’t not love me any more!<br>You’ve done deserted me!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She pointed to that ferry-craft<br>With one wild, vicious stare.<br>Dan looked and seen the telltale name<br>Of 'Ann' a-painted there!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What could he do? He done his best!<br>'Lost! Lost! Alas!' he cried;<br>And, kicking off his rubber boots,<br>Jumped overboard—and died!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ellis+Parker+Butler">Ellis Parker Butler</a><div class=q>
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His wives guv him no rest:
He had one wife to East Skiddaw
And one to Skiddaw West.

Now Ann Eliza was the name
Of her at East Skiddaw;
She was the most cantankerous
Female you ever saw.

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