Cover of There was an old sailor

Book 2014

There was an old sailor

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Language
English
Published
2014
  • Humorous stories
  • Adaptations
  • Sailors
  • Children's songs
  • Juvenile fiction
  • Nonsense verses
  • Fiction
  • Texts

The tale of an old salty sailor who swallows a krill which makes him ill, and who cures his terrible bellyache by eating each animal in the sea, one after another. This is a nautical take on the beloved childhood rhyme "There was an old lady who swallowed a fly."