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No full textA vessel runs over another and sinks it. Twelve ghostly seamen from the sunk vessel appear onboard. They disappear when they see the lighthouse light.Laws, NAB, D16, pp. 168-9; Mercer: Peacock p. 873; Greenleaf & Mansfield p. 227; Leach, #96, pp. 244-5
When I was in France in the army
No full textComic misadventures, with "shaving cream" substituted for a more scatilogical word
As shot and shell were flying on the battlefield
No full textDying soldier sends a message to his mother. Saves flag but loses life; general comes to commend him and discovers it is his own son.CFMJ, 7 (1979): FH Index - 6/10/26; Greenleaf: "While the Boys in Blue Were Fighting" - p. 363; ref - Fowke, "Midwest Folklore", p. 37 (gives publ. Charles K. Harris - 18970
The Dying Rebel
No full textIrish patriot song. Old man searches for dead son on battlefield; rebel dies calling for God's blessing on his cause
The well-known schooner "Little Jap"
No full textShip and crew of 13 lost in a gale en route from an island in Bonavista Bay to St. John's with a cargo of fish from the Labrador and Deer Island.No references