Patsey and Leigh were glad to spend the day in the town, visiting the cathedral, taking their meals at a restaurant, for the cuisine on board the boat was not of the highest character.
"We used to keep a regular cook," the captain lamented.

"In those days we often carried several passengers; but at present, when we seldom have more than one or two, we cannot afford it.

The Revolution is no doubt a grand thing, and has greatly benefited the nation, but it has weighed hardly on us.

There are but half the boats on the river there used to be, and they are hardly paying expenses, now that no one travels.

Those that go to sea are worse off still for, what with the falling off in trade, and with the English cruisers all along the coast, there is little employment for seamen, save in the privateers.