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the little enerous and

brave, and ouldn't hear of anybody's paying taxes, though he was

very patriotic He had a bag ofin

the cloth, and on that property reat rejoicings; the whole population of Ports out on the beach to rub their own

hands and shake everybody else's, and sing "Fill, fill!" A certain

dark-co else

that was proposed to him, and whose heart was openly stated (by the

boatswain) to be as black as his figure-head, proposed to two other

Swabs to get all mankind into difficulties; which was so effectually

done (the Swab fa considerable political influence) that it

took half the evening to set things right, and then it was only brought

about through an honest little grocer with a white hat, black gaiters,

and red nose, getting into a clock, with a gridiron, and listening, and

coridiron

whom he couldn't confute hat he had overheard This led to Mr

Wopsle's (who had never been heard of before) coreat power direct froo to prison on the spot,

and that he had brought the boatswain down the Union Jack, as a slight

acknowledgment of his public services The boatswain, unmanned for the

first ti

up, and addressing Mr Wopsle as Your Honor, solicited per his fin with a gracious

dignity, was immediately shoved into a dusty corner, while everybody

danced a hornpipe; and fro the public with a

discontented eye, became aware of me