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"Why, Cap'n," says one, "'tis all along o' these new 'listed rogues--"

"Aye, ospel-true, theer aren't a right sailor- 'em--"

"Then we'll learn 'em to be!" says Penfeather "Stand forward the new , some twelve unlovely fellows obeyed "I' faith!" says Penfeather, looking theallows! And where's the rest of 'e o' Toby Hudd the bo's'un!"

"See here,face in turn, "learn this--when you come aboard my ship and I say to one o' ye do this or do that, he does it, d'ye see, or--up to the yard-ars by his thuet me, my bully roarers?"

Not auneasily beneath Penfeather's quick bright eye, shuffling their feet and casting furtive glances on their fellows

"Now as to this lu the still unconscious man with his foot, "have him into the yard and heave a bucket o' water over hio aboard in half an hour--every unhung rascal"

Without we calooood, he brought us up a pair of stairs to a fair chamber and there served us a most excellent meal

Scarce had we risen fro, cap in hand, to say the o aboard We found some score fellows drawn up before the inn, and a desperate lot of cut-throats they looked, ith their hurts and general hang-dog air as they stood there in the light of a risinglooked the theo on before

"Well, Martin," says he as we followed together, "and how think ye of ers, rather--"

"Nay," says he, "tigers be cleanly creatures, I've heard"

"'A God's naues? Sure there be ood men be scarce and ever hard to come by--moreover these scum are a means to an end, d'ye see?"

"How so?"

"Just that, Martin," says he, glancing at me in his furtive manner, "a means to an end"

"What end?"

"Ah, whohis head Nohen I would have questioned him further he put me off thus with side answers, until ere come to the waterside, which is called Deptford Creek Here, having seen the others safe e between the huge bulk of ships where dihts burned and whence came, ever and anon, the sound of voices, the rattle of a hawser, a snatch of song and the like, as we paddled betwixt the vast hulls Presently ere beneath the towering stern of a great ship, and glancing up at this lofty structure, brave with carved-work and gilding, I read the name, THE FAITHFULL FRIEND