"A fine warm day; and the smell of the land, after so long a passage, is quite agreeable to the nose, whatever its ups and downs may be to the legs." The companions of the young peer looked amazed; and some of them, I thought, notwithstanding gravity and earnestness are rather characteristic of the monikin physiognomy, betrayed a slight disposition to laugh.

Not so with my Lord Chatterino himself.
He examined us a moment through a glass, and then seemed suddenly, and on the whole, agreeably struck at seeing us.
"How, Goldencalf!" he cried in surprise, "you in Leaphigh! This is indeed an unexpected satisfaction; for it will now be in my power to prove some of the facts that I am telling my friends, by actual observation.

Here are two of the humans, gents, of whom I was but this moment giving you some account--" Observing a disposition to merriment in his associates, he continued, looking exceedingly grave:-- "Restrain yourselves, gentlemen, I pray you.

These are very worthy people, I do assure you, in their own way, and are not at all to be ridiculed.

I scarcely know, even in our own marine, a better or a bolder navigator than this honest seaman; and as for the one in the parti-colored skin, I will take upon myself to say, that he is really a person of some consideration in his own little circle.