We had no suspicion, but thought that he had come out of church a little sooner than usual.

When we arrived on board and followed him up the side, he said to us as we came on deck,--"Walk aft, young gentlemen." We did; and he desired us to "toe a line," which means to stand in a row.

"Now, Mr Dixon," said he, "what was the text to-day ?" As he very often asked us that question, we always left one in the church until the text was given out, who brought it to us in the pastry-cook's shop, when we all marked it in our Bibles, to be ready if he asked us.

Dixon immediately pulled out his Bible where he had marked down the leaf, and read it.

"O! that was it," said Mr Falcon; "you must have remarkably good ears, Mr Dixon, to have heard the clergyman from the pastry-cook's shop.