The Lammas Foy
more general and noisy. Healths were drunk in warm terms:
“Here's ta dee, boy, as mony a blissin' as we hae crossed a saat watter drap tagedder.”
“Gude hadd His haand ower da corn, an' open da mooth o' da gray fish.”
“Here's death ta da head dat wears nae hair.”
“Aft may we meet, an never waar forn.”
“Eerim skoorim, suntie voorim,
Oorim skaerim skaebo;
If onybody wis me skaed,
May ill beskae himsel', O.”
In those days crews often fished together for many years, and the foy would occasionally take a devotional character, when some of the more emotional of the crew would recount with tear-bedimmed eyes the many providential deliverances of the past.
But when several members of the crew had fished in other boats, it was interesting to hear their tales of adventure, which were generally told with great minuteness.
It may be of some little interest, especially
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