. The Pinafore picture book: the story of Pinafore . ere was no other word handythat would do. 117 PINAFORE sailors were surprised at this culpable neglect ofduty and replied: However could you do it?Some day no doubt youll rue it,Although no creature knew itSo many years ago! Little Buttercup, not heeding their interruption,concluded her confession thus: In time each little waif Forsook his foster-mother,1The well-born babe was Ralph—Your Captain was the other! ! ! Again the crew explained the situation to eachother, that there might be no mistake about it: They left their foste
. The Pinafore picture book: the story of Pinafore . ere was no other word handythat would do. 117 PINAFORE sailors were surprised at this culpable neglect ofduty and replied: However could you do it?Some day no doubt youll rue it,Although no creature knew itSo many years ago! Little Buttercup, not heeding their interruption,concluded her confession thus: In time each little waif Forsook his foster-mother,1The well-born babe was Ralph—Your Captain was the other! ! ! Again the crew explained the situation to eachother, that there might be no mistake about it: They left their foster-mother;The one was Ralph, our brother,Our Captain was the other,A many years ago! ! ! Here was a pretty kettle of fish! Ralph was, pro-perly speaking, a Captain in the Navy, and CaptainCorcoran was only a common sailor! Am I really to understand, said Sir Joseph, that during all these years, each has been occupy-ing the others position? 1 That is to say, when their respective parents returned toEngland and reclaimed them. 118 I MIXED THOSE CHILDREN UP. PINAFORE That, said Little Buttercup, is the idea Iintended to convey. And youve done it very well, said Sir Joseph,and all the crew applauded so vigorously that LittleButtercup thought they wished to hear it all overagain, and had actually got so far as A many yearsago, when Sir Joseph interrupted her: Let them both appear before me at once, saidhe. And immediately Ralph appeared dressed inCaptain Corcorans uniform as a captain in thenavy, and Captain Corcoran in Ralphs uniform asa man-o-wars man! This had been carefully arranged by LittleButtercup herself. Knowing that the time had comewhen it would be necessary that she should revealher secret, she had previously caused one of CaptainCorcorans uniforms to be conveyed to Ralphsquarters, and one of Ralphs uniforms to be placedin Captain Corcorans cabin, with a note, pinned toeach bundle, explaining the condition of we see what Little Buttercup meant when s
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