"Come," said he, "have a good heart .-- How dost do, friend ?" "Do!" replied the squire, "do as well as I can .-- That's a lie too; I might have done better.

I had no business to be here." "You ought to thank God and your master," resumed the surgeon, "for the providential escape you have had." "Thank my master!" cried the squire, "thank the devil! Go and teach your grannum to crack filberds.

I know who I'm bound to pray for, and who I ought to curse the longest day I have to live." Here the captain interposing, "Nay, brother," said he, "you are bound to pray for this here gentleman as your sheet-anchor; for, if so be as he had not cleared your stowage of the water you had taken in at your upper works, and lightened your veins, d'ye see, by taking away some of your blood, adad! you had driven before the gale, and never been brought up in this world again, d'ye see." "What, then you would persuade me," replied the patient, "that the only way to save my life was to shed my precious blood?
Look ye, friend, it shall not be lost blood to me .-- I take you all to witness, that there surgeon, or apothecary, or farrier, or dog-doctor, or whatsoever he may be, has robbed me of the balsam of life .-- He has not left so much blood in my body as would fatten a starved flea .-- O! that there was a lawyer here to serve him with a siserari." Then fixing his eyes upon Ferret, he proceeded: "An't you a limb of the law, friend ?--No, I cry you mercy, you look more like a showman or a conjurer."-- Ferret, nettled at this address, answered, "It would be well for you, that I could conjure a little common sense into that numskull of yours." "If I want that commodity," rejoined the squire, "I must go to another market, I trow .-- You legerdemain men be more like to conjure the money from our pockets than sense into our skulls.

Vor my own part, I was once cheated of vorty good shillings by one of your broother cups and balls." In all probability he would have descended to particulars, had he not been seized with a return of his nausea, which obliged him to call for a bumper of brandy.

This remedy being swallowed, the tumult in his stomach subsided.