"Well, I don't mind admitting to you that he was very bad indeed; but about six bells I got a draught to take effect, and he has been sleeping ever since." "And you didn't see the Captain brought aboard, sir ?" "I did not.

'Brought,' you say ?" Ben Jope nodded his head, and for a moment or two watched in silence the sponging of our Major's scalp.

"I've known this here ship in the variousest kinds o' weathers," he announced at length, with quiet conviction, "but they was fool's-play one and all compared with what's ahead of us." "If it comes to that again," put in Bill Adams, "I don't see but this here Justice o' the Peace is the plum o' the whole bunch.

Maybe"-- he turned to his friend--"you ain't never seen a Justice o' the Peace?
I hev'." "W'y," asked Ben Jope, "what's there peculiar about 'em ?" "I got committed by one some years ago," Mr.Adams answered, with a grave effort of memory.

"At a place called Farnham, it was, a way inland up the Portsmouth Road.