I always distinctly hear the English phrase "bird's eye view" macaronically introduced late on at a line end to provide one of the rhymes for the eponymous 'Fflat', but don't find it in any of the versions or translations above. Have I been mishearing all these years? If not, how does it fit into the narrative?

BTW, I have always understood the title to mean "Hugh Pugh's boat" rather than "The boat called Hugh Pugh". Which is correct?

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