A man does not generally change his name without having good, or rather bad, reasons for it." "What appears to me," remarked Fritz, "as the most singular feature of your press-gang adventure is, that you are alive to tell it." "Why so ?" "Because I think it ought to end thus: 'The victims of the press-gang strangled Willis a few days after,'" "Aye, aye, but you do not know what a sailor is; our recruits had not been a fortnight at sea before they entirely forgot the trick I had played them." Just as Willis concluded his narrative, the man at the mast-head called out, "Sail ho!" "Where away ?" bawled the captain.
"Right a-head," replied the voice.
The _Hoboken_ had hitherto pursued her voyage uninterruptedly, and the Yankee captain now prepared to signalize himself by a capture..