"We have passed some nights and days of peril.

And there are, I doubt not, still parlous times ahead of the Jasper B.before our ship sets sail for the China Seas.

But what is sweeter than pleasure snatched from the very presence of danger?
Courage and gayety should go hand in hand! It is a beautiful May afternoon, we have a goodly deck beneath our feet, and, briefly, who is for a dance ?" A huzza showed the popularity of the suggestion.

Washington Artillery Lamb, the janitor and butler of the Annabel Lee, possessed an accordion on which he was an earnest and artistic performer.

Miss Pringle's Jefferson had with him a harmonica, or mouth organ, which he at once produced.