‘“Now, Jemmy, you shall see by-and-by I will make you open your weather eye And like a pig for quarters cry For insulting Baltic Charley. Boatswain’s mate, come quickly jump, Seize old Jemmy up to the pump, And give him a dozen over the rump To the tune of Baltic Charley.”’ Another series of this Russian group consists of sentimental verses. _Bold Napier_, for instance, begins: ‘Old England calls her sons to arms the Russian bear to meet, Our brave old admiral commands and guides the British fleet, The battle calls me from thy arms, let not my Susan fear In the cause of liberty we go to sail with bold Napier.’ Similar in type is _Jack and Susan and Long Life to Sir Charles Napier_. Bolder is _The Baltic Lovers_, which relates how a merchant’s daughter of Southampton city: ‘Did fall in love with a brisk young sailor Who had engaged with Sir Charles Napier,’ and announced her intention of following him to sea in disguise: ‘He said “Mary, my charming fairy, Are you deranged or what can you mean?-- On board the _Wellington_ you know I’ve entered To fight the Russians and serve the Queen.”’ In spite of this discouragement and of the active opposition of her father she entered on board the Wellington, and passed for a long time as a man. ‘One lovely morning the fleet had warning To fight the Russians at seven bells, And her true lover did her discover And met his Mary at the Dardanelles.’ Shedding ‘large briny tears’ she was brought on the quarter-deck before Sir Charles Napier, who was much moved by the spectacle. ‘Old Charley said, “You are an angel, You are an angel I plainly see, You love your Queen, you love a sailor, And soon made happy you shall be.”’ And thereupon he discharged Mary and the brisk young sailor and sent both back to England singing ‘God save the Queen and Sir Charles Napier.’ In addition to this there are of course many songs of a purely patriotic nature of which the naval glories of England are in part the theme. The most familiar of them is _The Red, White, and Blue_. ‘It had a considerable vogue during the Russian war,’ writes Sir J. K. Laughton. ‘I often heard it sung up the Baltic: but of course it is a music-hall song. It was always understood that the ‘red, white, and blue’ meant the three admirals’ flags. Since then it has been taken to mean that these are the national colours--a mistake which has led to a thousand absurdities.’ Out of all the popular songs illustrating the naval side of the Russian war only one deserves reprinting in this volume. That is a song called _The Russians won’t come out_, which reflects the general disappointment of the navy at the absence of any opportunities for fighting at sea (p. 336).