SUGAR TOOTHED DICK
My wife's dad, Hollis Barnett loved poetry and had memorized a number of poems. I wrote about that https://paulluverajournalonline.com/weblog/2010/03/i-write-this-in-memory-of-my-wifes-father-hollis-hall-barnett-whodied-in-puyallup-washington-on-march-22-1990-at-the-a.html and mentioned of the poems was Sugar Toothed Dick. I could not locate the full poem until my friend Dennis Donnelly located it. Here it is
SUGAR-TOOTHED DICK
O For dainties was sick, 
So he slyly stole into the kitchen, 
Snatched a cup from the pantry, 
And darted out quick, 
Unnoticed by mother or Gretchen. 
Whispered he, "There s no cake, 
For to-morrow they bake, 
But this custard looks rich and delicious ; 
How they ll scold at the rats, 
Or the mice, or the cats ; 
For of me I don t think they re suspicious, 
"They might have filled up 
Such a mean little cup ! 
And for want of a spoon I must drink it: 
But tis easy to pour 
Hark! who s at the door?" 
And the custard went down ere you d thinlr it. 
With a shriek he sprang up; 
To the floor dashed the cup; 
Then he howled, tumbled, sputtered, and blustered, 
Till the terrible din 
Brought the whole household in 
He had swallowed a cupful of mustard.
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Paul,
I think you know how much I treasure my own experience of spending three years on purse seiners with skippers named Zuvich, Stanovich and Pecaric. Still, I sometimes think I was motivated to go to law school by the 4 am clanging of the bilge alarm that preceded the starting of the big diesel a few feet away from where I had just fallen asleep in my cramped and smelly foc’s’l bunk.
Best wishes for 2012 and beyond!
–Bill