a-hoop

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This made assurance a certainty, every man-jack of the crew being cock - a-hoop with excitement, when, after a lot of signalling between the two cruisers, and the _Merlin's_ gig bringing her captain alongside, he being junior to ` old Hankey Pankey, 'the two of us sailed off in company just before sunset.

Young Tom Bowling The Boys of the British Navy John B. [Illustrator] Greene