I remained with them for half-an-hour more, when my segar was finished; I then rose, and thanking the old gentleman for his civility, begged that I might be allowed to bring him a few more segars, and took my leave.
The daughter opened the street door, and I could not refrain from taking her hand and kissing it--" "Where's Mr Chucks?
call the boatswain there forward," hallooed out the lieutenant.
"Here I am, sir," replied Mr Chucks, hastening aft, and leaving me and his story.
"The captain of the maintop reports the breast backstay much chafed in the serving.

Go up and examine it," said the first lieutenant.
"Yes, sir," replied the boatswain, who immediately went up the rigging.
"And, Mr Simple, attend to the men scraping the spots off the quarter-deck." "Yes, sir," replied I; and thus our conversation was broken up.
The weather changed that night, and we had a succession of rain and baffling winds for six or seven days, during which I had no opportunity of hearing the remainder of the boatswain's history.

We joined the fleet off Toulon, closed the admiral's ship, and the captain went on board to pay his respects.

When he returned, we found out, through the first lieutenant, that we were to remain with the fleet until the arrival of another frigate, expected in about a fortnight, and then the admiral had promised that we should have a cruise.

The second day after we had joined, we were ordered to form part of the in-shore squadron, consisting of two line-of-battle ships and four frigates.