A hog is hard to catch, too.

He pulls his legs out of a noose without half trying, and you can't hold him by the neck or body.

The only way is to get him like the sea lion--back of one foreleg." A WATERSPOUT.
Doubtless many of my readers have heard of the dreadful encounters of vessels with waterspouts, when the ship escaped destruction by firing a cannon-ball into the waterspout, thus causing it to break apart.
Now these things are by no means such terrible objects as many believe.
No doubt the vessels of the present day are larger and stronger than formerly, and perhaps waterspouts have become smaller.

Be as it may, the people who go down to the sea in ships need give themselves no uneasiness about them, for really they amount to little.
The _Slavonia_, of the Hamburg line left Brunshausen, on the Elbe, on February 26 last, under the command of Capt.

H.Schmidt.