NAVAL NURSERY RHYMES.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 120, 12 May 1876, Page 4

NAVAL NURSERY RHYMES.

1 , - (From the . London Ruuch ) • I A recent public speaker is reported tp have said that the way the Navy is now managed is '? positively childish." If this be true, pur Bailors may in some sort be looked, upon as children and . s'parce but of the nursery; and, this being so,- they may perhaps find some amusement in such nursery rhymes as these:— ' : " ( : • • : - ; ,■ ' ' I# . •■■ • ■ • ' Ifushaby, Admiral, sleep like a top ; Whtn the wind blows safe ashore you should , i '"■"' stop; : . '■ : . '" Ere you awake there'll perhaps come a squall, And down may got ironclads, sailors and all. ! ;. ' ..-•■■ .... 11., Bah, bah, black sheep, let me spo your hull ; Ab^ yes, precisely so of leaking valves 'tis ] i;:,;-full.:- / ■ ! 'I ; . ' Here's pne. by. .the engine-room, another by n \ the Btern, Ana what on -.earth they wante'dior no, fellow : .: learn. «» . . „ r | Rashery, dashery, smash! ' r 'ir MntpieaCh others ships crash} , l , 1 a.'j i .... ;,A Q d it.etrik.es mqre than one, ; V' . K That John Bull is done, ' " ' j , ! For. repairs wHen he forks out the' cash . • iv.'' .' : '' -•■■ Ironclad, ironclad, get up your steam, And tee that your whistles are ready to scream, Ijor fear of a < leak..yoUr fogrsignajis- prepare, don't start till the 1 weather : glass stands ; at set fair. , . . - . , I i 'y. ' ' : ' l i (•, There was a littleiman .-■" ". I ' That in-a big ship ran ' . •.. On a perfectly cailm morning from Spithead, ! head,\liead;- t ;■■■■'■< \ ] Ani B^eered.her. on a -rock, ■ i And" sank her by the shock, For he'd quite forgot tbe'tieaying of the lead^ ! „ . ..lead, Jead. ' . -.- • , r i ''"''•'' vi. '"•' •' ' • '•-<■ ; - Sing o-sdnff for sai'ors, ' ) : !} i Pipe your wtather eye; : With more than twenty big ships, : ■ .. iOp none can; we rejy. • WKen Parliament Jb opened, 1 How precious small they'll sing, ! -, Those 4L.dmlr.alty-. lubber?, „- j \WhomDiz.ovierb9ard.nibstf,llUigi J, A terrible railway accident occurred on the Baltimore and Ohio line through the bfeakiog,of a bridge 118.feet above then bottom of a narrow creek. A ! gentleman who -lives, near: the bridge describes the accident aa one of the most fearful sights he ever beheld; He 1 saw by tbe mop.nl jght the, doomed, Jtrairr as it approached the bridge; saw-the bilge engine as it went dpwu into the abyss below, and all the' cars)' with their ifreightage-of - human life; and dumb* cr.eaturea, take the fearfulplunge upon the rocks; Mo're than a hundred fe;et below, the traiu"of cars were piled _up for thirty; or forty. • feet. The. wonder is that; auything on . the train that had life. was not instantly crushed. Of the; large> number of cattle, and sheep and hogß, but a solitary steer showed a sign of life remaining. Fifteen perobns were killed and many cattle' and sheep with which the train' was chiefly freighted.

Scene at a Saoramento wedding breakfast-f-Cojnpany all seated . a.boat the table. A pause in the general coQveraation. Hap,py v bridegroom to his wife's seven.year-old siVter at the otb^er end of the , •• yiToll, Julie, you have V new brother- noW/' Jalie,- 1 "Yes, but rqpther sjiid . to papa the other day that she was afraid you woulfli never amount to much, but that' it seemed to be Sarah's laet chance." Intense silence for a moment, followed by, a japid pi a y of kniresa^d forks. i