Horatio volunteered upon this service: he was lowered down at night from the bedroom window by some sheets, plundered the tree, was drawn up with the pears, and then distributed them among his school-fellows without reserving any for himself.

"He only took them," he said, "because every other boy was afraid." Early on a cold and dark spring morning Mr.Nelson's servant arrived at this school, at North Walsham, with the expected summons for Horatio to join his ship.

The parting from his brother William, who had been for so many years his playmate and bed-fellow, was a painful effort, and was the beginning of those privations which are the sailor's lot through life.

He accompanied his father to London.

The RAISONNABLE was lying in the Medway.