As I had afterward occasion to take his signature, I shall at once give it in the proper form--"Capt.

Noah Poke." "Of what part of England are you a native, Mr.Poke ?" "I believe I may say of the new parts." "I do not know that any portion of the island was so designated.

Will you have the good-nature to explain yourself ?" "I'm a native of Stunin'tun, in the State of Connecticut, in old New England.

My parents being dead, I was sent to sea a four-year-old, and here I am, walking about the kingdom of France without a cent in my pocket, a shipwrecked mariner.

Hard as my lot is, to say the truth, I'd about as leave starve as live by speaking their d--d lingo." "Shipwrecked--a mariner--starving--and a Yankee!" "All that, and maybe more, too; though, by your leave, commodore, we'll drop the last title.