When I grew faint from a trifling wound, Luff Scudamore led the borders with a cool courage that discomfited the fo.'" "Robert Honyman all over!" cried the Admiral, with delight.

"I could swear that he wrote it, if it was written with his toes.

'Twas an old joke against him, when he was lieutenant, that he never could spell his own title; and he never would put an e after an o in any word.

He is far too straightforward a man to spell well; and now the loss of three fingers will cut his words shorter than ever, and be a fine excuse for him.

He was faint again, when I boarded the Leda, partly no doubt through strong medical measures; for the doctor, who is an ornament to his profession, had cauterised his stumps with a marlinspike, for fear of inflammation.