The skipper stormed and tore his hair,
Hauled on his boots and roared at Marden—
"Nantucket's sunk and here we are
Right over old Marm Hackett's garden!"


The Nantucket Skipper, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

James Thomas Fields Quotes

The skipper stormed and tore his hair, Hauled on his boots and roared at Marden— Nantucket's sunk and here we are Right over old Marm Hackett's...

The skipper stormed and tore his hair, Hauled on his boots and roared at Marden— Nantucket's sunk and here we are Right over old Marm Hackett's...

The skipper stormed and tore his hair, Hauled on his boots and roared at Marden— Nantucket's sunk and here we are Right over old Marm Hackett's...

The skipper stormed and tore his hair, Hauled on his boots and roared at Marden— Nantucket's sunk and here we are Right over old Marm Hackett's...