A man was sitting underneath a tree 
Outside the village, and he asked me what 
Name was upon this place, and said that he 
Was never here before. He told a lot 
Of stories to me too. His nose was flat. 
I asked him how it happened, and he said 
The first mate of the Mary Ann done that 
With a marling-spike one day, but he was dead, 
And jolly good job too ; and he'd have gone 
A long way to have killed him, and he had 
A gold ring in one ear ; the other one 
"Was bit off by a crocodile, bedad." 
That's what he said. He taught me how to chew. 
He was a real nice man. He liked me too.