But you're a good, innocent boy just now, so I won't thrash you for it.

Come, dry your eyes, Peter, and never mind it.

We'll drink his health and long life to him, after supper, and then never think any more about it." I was very melancholy for a few days; but it was so delightful running down the Portuguese and Spanish coasts, the weather was so warm, and the sea so smooth, that I am afraid I forgot my brother's death sooner than I ought to have done; but my spirits were cheered up, and the novelty of the scene prevented me from thinking.

Every one, too, was so gay and happy, that I could not well be otherwise.

In a fortnight, we anchored in Gibraltar Bay, and the ship was stripped to refit.