If it is night, the moon should be introduced; and if it is day, the sun--and so on ?" "Of course; and, if the circumstances are of a pleasing nature, you must leave horrors and terrors on your pallette; change gusts into zephyrs, snow into roses and violets, and the weathercocks into golden vanes glittering in the sunshine." "I understand." "You want to color a popular outbreak, do you not ?" "Yes." "Then you should introduce a tempest howling, the waves roaring, the lightning flashing, and discord raging in the air as well as on the earth." "Well, to continue my story.

Although it was midnight, the disturbance began to wake up the villagers, and a crowd was collecting, so we hurried off our prisoners to the boats as speedily as we could.

Some five and twenty able bodied men were thus added to his Majesty's fleet.

The object of our visit to the Irish coast was accomplished, and the _Norfolk_ continued her voyage to the West Indies.

Now you know what is meant by the word _pressed_, and likewise the nautical signification of the word _press-gang_." "And you say that Bill Stubbs has been trapped on board this ship by such means ?" "Yes, at New Orleans." "According to your story, then, that does not say very much in his favor ?" "No, not a great deal; still, that proves nothing--the fact of his calling himself Bob is a worse feature.