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We of the Navy, coalless and probably by that time rumless as well, will rush blindly from our harbours, our masts decked with Jolly Rogers and our sailors convulsed with hornpipe, to seek the enemy.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-09-29 by Various