`` Having taken the pirate captain prisoner , sailed slap over the schooner , whose decks were piled high with dead and whose lee scuppers ran blood , for the order had been ` Cutlasses , and die hard ! ' ` Bosun 's mate , take a bight of the flying-jib sheet , and start this villain if he does n't confess his sins double quick , ' said the British captain . The Portuguese held his tongue like a brick , and walked the plank , while the jolly tars cheered like mad . But the sly dog dived , came up under the man-of-war , scuttled her , and down she went , with all sail set , ` To the bottom of the sea , sea , sea ' where ... '' `` Oh , gracious ! What shall I say ? '' cried Sallie , as Fred ended his rigmarole , in which he had jumbled together pell-mell nautical phrases and facts out of one of his favorite books . `` Well , they went to the bottom , and a nice mermaid welcomed them , but was much grieved on finding the box of headless knights , and kindly pickled them in brine , hoping to discover the mystery about them , for being a woman , she was curious . By-and-by a diver came down , and the mermaid said , ` I 'll give you a box of pearls if you can take it up , ' for she wanted to restore the poor things to life , and could n't raise the heavy load herself . So the diver hoisted it up , and was much disappointed on opening it to find no pearls . He left it in a great lonely field , where it was found by a. . . '' `` Little goose girl , who kept a hundred fat geese in the field , '' said Amy , when Sallie 's invention gave out . `` The little girl was sorry for them , and asked an old woman what she should do to help them . ` Your geese will tell you , they know everything . ' said the old woman . So she asked what she should use for new heads , since the old ones were lost , and all the geese opened their hundred mouths and screamed ... '' '' ` Cabbages ! ' '' continued Laurie promptly . '' ` Just the thing , ' said the girl , and ran to get twelve fine ones from her garden . She put them on , the knights revived at once , thanked her , and went on their way rejoicing , never knowing the difference , for there were so many other heads like them in the world that no one thought anything of it . The knight in whom I 'm interested went back to find the pretty face , and learned that the princesses had spun themselves free and all gone and married , but one .
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British Cutlasses Laurie Portuguese Sallie bight left man-of-war rigmarole scuppers