I wanted to return part: but he walked out of the shop, and before I could get round the counter, he had got round the corner of the street." "'Twas a God-send, my dear father," replied Newton, "for I have not a halfpenny.

Do you know what became of my chest, that I left on board of the sloop ?" "Dear me! now I think of it, it came here by the waggon.

I put it upstairs.

I wondered why you sent it." Newton having appeased his hunger, went upstairs, and found all his wearing apparel had been forwarded by Mr Hilton, who supposed him dead, and that he was enabled to make a more respectable appearance than what the privateer's people had hitherto permitted him.

In a few days he felt quite recovered from his fatigue, and sallied forth in search of employment.