Besides, I smelt the rhubarb and senna all the way up-stairs, and knew that I'd fallen among professional brethren;-- "'Oh, then this valiant mariner, Which sailed across the sea, He came home to his own sweetheart, With his heart so full of glee; With his heart so full of glee, sir, And his pockets full of gold, And his bag of drugget, with many a nugget, As heavy as he could hold.' "Don't you wish yours was, Doctor ?" "Eh, eh, eh," sniggered Heale.
"Mine was last night.

Now, Doctor, let's have a glass of brandy-and-water, hot with, and an hour's more sleep; and then kick me out, and into the workhouse.

Was anybody else saved from the wreck last night ?" "Nobody, sir," said Heale; and said "sir," because, in spite of the stranger's rough looks, his accent,--or rather, his no-accent,--showed him that he had fallen in with a very different, and probably a very superior stamp of man to himself; in the light of which conviction (and being withal a good-natured old soul), he went down and mixed him a stiff glass of brandy-and water, answering his wife's remonstrances by-- "The party up-stairs is a bit of a frantic party, certainly; but he is certainly a very superior party, and has the true gentleman about him, any one can see.

Besides, he's shipwrecked, as you and I may be any day; and what's like brandy-and-water ?" "I should like to know when I'm like to be shipwrecked, or you either;" says Mrs.Heale, in a tone slightly savouring of indignation and contempt.

"You think of nothing but brandy-and-water." But she let the doctor take the glass upstairs, nevertheless.
A few minutes afterwards, Frank came in, and inquired for the shipwrecked man.
"Well enough in body, sir; and rather requires your skill than mine," said the old time-server.