"The pull being at every other line, there are eight pulls in the above. "For a quick pulling chanty we often use this one: "'Rendso was no sailor-- Rendso, boys, Rendso, He shipped on board a whaler-- Rendso, boys, Rendso.' "What happened to Rendso depended on the imagination of the one who sang the 'coal box'--the line. Here is a heaving chanty, or slow pull: "'To South Australia we're bound to go-- Heave away, heave away. Let the wind blow high or low-- We're bound to South Australia. We're going home and don't give a damn-- Heave away, heave away. For the captain, the mate or any other man-- We're bound to South Australia.' "'Fifteen men on the dead man's chest' never was used as a chanty. It would require too much bass; but it was used as a drone, which it is. An abstracted man would use a line, or may be, the whole verse, or the first line, used as derision. For illustration: "When I was last at the Press Club a question pertaining to the sea came up. One man sought the dictionary. To express my contempt I repeated the first line. 'We have no use for the dictionary. To hell with it,' expresses the idea. We sailors have a language of our own. It is ours, it is up to us to put you right when the impossible is said. I quote two such lines: "'We wrapped 'em all in a mains'l tight With twice ten turns of the hawser's bight! "These two lines are part of a poem written by Young Allison as a continuance of the Billy Bones song in Treasure Island. "A mainsail is made of 0, 1 or 2 canvas, which will stand alone; 28 sheet-iron would do as well. "A hawser, with us, is anything in the shape of a rope which is above six inches circumference. You will note that the bight is used--two parts, or loop. Instead of using the largest rope on board a ship, the smallest--skysail bunt-line--would have been more to the point. "A sailor would get back at me by saying 'Perhaps she didn't carry skysails.' "I would reply, 'Suppose the mainsail was as soft as silk and the hawser as pliable, would you, as a sailor, throw them away on dead men?'