I Always Go to Sea as a Sailor

I always go to sea as a sailor because they make a point of paying me for my trouble. The act of paying is perhaps the most uncomfortable fliction that the two orchard thieves entailed upon us. But being paid, what will compare with that? Ah, how cheerfully we consign selves to perdition. And doubtless, my going on this whaling voyage formed part of the grand programme of providence that was drawn up a long time ago. It came in as a sort of brief inter d and solo between more extensive performances. I take it that this part of the bill must have run something like this, grand contested election for the presidency of the united states.