I'll have a captain in, this very night, that's a sailor, and some sailors to work for him." "I'll go when I please, and that's to-morrow morning," cried the captain after us, as we departed for the shore.
"There's something gone wrong with the world to-day; it must have come bottom up!" wailed Pinkerton.

"Bellairs, and then the hotel clerk, and now This Fraud! And what am I to do for a captain, Loudon, with Longhurst gone home an hour ago, and the boys all scattered ?" "I know," said I."Jump in!" And then to the driver: "Do you know Black Tom's ?" Thither then we rattled; passed through the bar, and found (as I had hoped) Johnson in the enjoyment of club life.

The table had been thrust upon one side; a South Sea merchant was discoursing music from a mouth-organ in one corner; and in the middle of the floor Johnson and a fellow-seaman, their arms clasped about each other's bodies, somewhat heavily danced.

The room was both cold and close; a jet of gas, which continually menaced the heads of the performers, shed a coarse illumination; the mouth-organ sounded shrill and dismal; and the faces of all concerned were church-like in their gravity.

It were, of course, indelicate to interrupt these solemn frolics; so we edged ourselves to chairs, for all the world like belated comers in a concert-room, and patiently waited for the end.