A vessel that securely floats,

  
    
  
 

An empty walnut shell.

They'd read of countries hot and cold
Of Fades and Chinese,

_They’d read where ev'ry spice is sold,
They knew the names of seas,

Great rivers where the sands are + gold,

     

Strange animals and trees.

No wonder then this little pair
Would oft indulge the notion
That Walnut Shells real vessels were,

And washing tubs the Ocean !