I never was hit in my life that I did not feel a desire for game after the fever was gone.

Snipe, too, must live on the banks of that stream.

Snipe are coming in season now, Griffin ?" "It's more likely, sir, that some of the privateersmen have got ashore on planks and empty casks, and are prowling about in the weeds, watching our boats.

Three or four of them would be too much for you, Captain Cuffe, as the scoundrels all carry knives as long as ship's cutlasses." "I suppose your notion may be true; and I shall have to give it up.

Pull back to the frigate, Davy, and we'll be off after some more of these French ragamuffins." This settled the matter.