AT SEA

"They went to sea in a sieve, they did,

In a sieve they went to sea:

In spite of all their friends could say,

On a winter's morn, on a stormy day,

In a sieve they went to sea.

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"They sailed away in a sieve, they did,

In a sieve they sailed so fast,

With only a beautiful pea-green veil,

Tied with a riband by way of a sail,

To a small tobacco-pipe mast;" 

 

And so on. You see that it is quite possible to go to sea in a sieve—that is, if the sieve is large enough and the water is not too rough—and that the above lines are now realized in every particular.

  -- C.V. Boys – Soap-Bubbles and Forces Which Mould Them (1896).