 
 <prompt> ```CHAPTER XLV. 

PUBLISHING POETRY INSIDE MAN-OF-WAR. 

Few days after we land for Rio, one kind of funny thing happen to my guy wey I sabi well well, young Lemsford, the gun-deck bard. 

The big guns for one armed ship get wood wey dem dey call _tompions_, wey dem paint black, wey dem put for their mouth, to stop sea water from enter inside. These tompions dey fit in and out easily, like cover for butter container. 

Based on advice wey one friend give am, Lemsford, wey dey fear for the safety of hin box wey contain poetry, don dey use one particular gun for main-deck, wey he dey put hin manuscripts inside the tube, by simply dey crawl small commot from the porthole, remove the tompion, put hin papers wey he don roll tight, and make everything tight again. 

After we don chop breakfast finish, me and am dey relax for the main-top--where, by permission of my ogbonge master, Jack Chase, I don invite am--when, all of a sudden, we hear cannon fire. Na our own ship dey fire. 

"Ah!" one top-man talk, "dem dey return the salute wey dem give us yesterday." 

"O Lord!" Lemsford shout, "my _Songs of the Sirens!_" and he run go down the rigging go the batteries; but as he just touch the gun-deck, gun No. 20--hin literary strong-box--burst with one big sound. 

"Well, my after-guard Virgil," Jack Chase talk to am, as he dey slowly climb back up the rigging, "you don get am? You no need answer; I see say you too late. But no worry, my boy: no printer fit do the work for you pass. Na so e dey good to publish, White-Jacket," he turn come meet me--"fire am straight go inside dem; every canto na twenty-four-pound shot; _hull_ the blockheads, whether dem like am or not. And make you sabi, Lemsford, when your shot dey do the most damage, na so you go hear the least from the enemy. Person wey don die no fit even talk small." 

1. Who be the gun-deck bard?
2. Wetin happen to am?
3. How many days after dem land for Rio e happen?
4. Where e hide hin papers?
5. Na which particular gun?
6. Why e dey hide dem?
7. Where dem dey relax?
8. After which meal?
9. Who allow Lemsford make dem invite am go the main-top?
10. Wetin be the reason for the canon fire?
11. According to who?``` <response>: ```1. Lemsford
2. dey funny
3. One or two days
4. tube of gun
5. main-deck
6. dey fear for im poetry destiny
7. main-top
8. Breakfast
9. I bin get
10. dey greet back from shore
11. top-man``` 