Why, as I sit here, I've but three shillings and a penny of it lift.

But there's a smell here that's no canny; so I'll just go up again into the fresh air." When Mr M'Foy quitted the gun-room they all laughed very much.

After he had been a short time on deck he went down into the midshipmen's berth; but he made himself very unpleasant, quarrelling and wrangling with everybody.

It did not, however, last very long; for he would not obey any orders that were given to him.

On the third day, he quitted the ship without asking the permission of the first lieutenant; when he returned on board the following day, the first lieutenant put him under an arrest, and in charge of the sentry at the cabin door.