Everything is for a term venerated in
navies. Sailors Any tangible object associated
with any A some striking incident, of that the service is
converted into a monument. The spar
from which the Foretopman was suspended,
was for some years was for some few
followed years kept trace of by the
bluejackets. Their knowledges pursued followed it
from ship to dock-yard and again
from dock-yard to ship, following still pursuing it
even when at last reduced to a meer
dock-yard boom. To them a chip of it
was as a piece of the Cross. Ignorant tho'
they were of the secret facts of the tragedy,
and not thinking but that the penalty was
somehow justly necessarily unavoidably inflicted from the naval point of view,
view
for all that they
instinctively
they
knew
felt that Billy was
a bully boy, was a a sort of true man as incapable
of wilful murder . ,HS alike of causeless mutiny as as of
wilful murder. The They recalled his
the fresh young image of the handsome Handsome Sailor, its beauty
and those features that face upon which they
had never seen a su scHS never deformed by any a
sneer or vile subtler vile freak within. of the heart within.
Their This impression of him took was doutless
deepened by his end the fact that he was
goe gone , and in a measure mysteriously gone.
feeling on On at the time the gun decks of the Indomitable" found The general estimate
of his nature
and its unconscious simplicity
eventually found rude utterance from one of his mates, own watch one
another a of the foretopmen gifted , with as frequent some
sailors are, with an artless the a poetic temperament ; .
written but his wholly He composed tarry hand made some lines
These The some lines that follow whereof the title
is his own. a ballad which after circulating
a bully boy, was a a sort of true man as incapable
of wilful murder . ,HS alike of causeless mutiny as as of
wilful murder. The They recalled his
the fresh young image of the handsome Handsome Sailor, its beauty
and those features that face upon which they
had never seen a su scHS never deformed by any a
sneer or vile subtler vile freak within. of the heart within.
Their This impression of him took was doutless
deepened by his end the fact that he was
goe gone , and in a measure mysteriously gone.
feeling on On at the time the gun decks of the Indomitable" found The general estimate
of his nature
and its unconscious simplicity
eventually found rude utterance from one of his mates, own watch one
another a of the foretopmen gifted , with as frequent some
sailors are, with an artless the a poetic temperament ; .
written but his wholly He composed tarry hand made some lines
These The some lines that follow whereof the title
is his own. a ballad which after circulating
among the
shipboard
crews for a while, finally got
rudely
printed at Portsmouth as a rude ballad. at
Portsmouth The title given to it was his own. the sailor's.
Billy in the Darbies
printed at Portsmouth as a rude ballad. at
Portsmouth The title given to it was his own. the sailor's.
Billy in the Darbies