His son, asking for a commission in the army, and his daughter going to be married! Both desirable enough in their way, but not the sort of facts to go to sleep over, particularly when fired off in his ear just as he was lying down.
So he lay tossing about, more or less uncomfortable all night, but dozed off just as the daylight began to show more decidedly in the window.

He appeared to have slept from thirty to thirty-five seconds, when Jim awoke him with,-- "It's time to get up, father, if you are going to Cape Chatham to-day." "D--n Cape Chatham," was his irreverent reply when Jim was gone, which sentiment has been often re-echoed by various coasting skippers in later times.

"Why, I haven't been to sleep ten minutes,--and a frosty morning, too.

I wish it would rain.

I am not vindictive, but I do indeed.