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Thread #24577   Message #281929
Posted By: GUEST,Bruce O.
21-Aug-00 - 06:33 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: the handsome cabin boy, any ideas?
Subject: RE: the handsome cabin boy, any ideas?
The second 'Short Jacket' one in DT shouldn't be subtitled 'Cabin boy', because there's no indication that that's her position. It's Laws N12, 'The Maid in Sorrow' or 'Short Jacket'. I think David Diamond's one is mostly his own, based on 'Handsome Cabin Boy', and shouldn't have a Laws' number (or be DT #444). In 'Short Jacket' the maid goes to sea in search of her lover' and reveals her sex only upon leaving the ship. No marriage to the captain there.