"In my time we made very little of that; and the breed may be slacked off a little, but not quite so bad as that would be.

Ah! you should a' heard what old Keppel--on the twenty-seventh day of July it was, in the year of our Lord 1778.

Talk about Nelson! to my mind old Keppel could have boxed his compass backward.

Not but what these men know how to fight quite as well as need be nowadays.

Why, if I was aboard of that there frigate, I couldn't do much more than she have done.