I strongly urged him to try half-a-dozen, assuring him that if he once experienced their invigorating effects he would never cease to recommend them.

But the ignorant fellow didn't seem to see it; for, finishing his brandy and buttoning up his pockets, he walked on shore.

I never thought of naming toothbrushes, for what could a man who had never heard of Cockles know of the luxury of toothbrushes?
So I sat quietly down, and began to sum up my profits on the _corsages_.
I was deeply engaged in this occupation when I felt a heavy hand on my shoulder.

Turning round I saw my friend the trader, who, after having smothered my boot in tobacco-juice, said, 'I say, captain, have you got any coffin-screws on trade ?' His question rather staggered me, but he explained that they had no possible way of making this necessary article in the Southern States, and that they positively could not keep the bodies quiet in their coffins without them, especially when being sent any distance for interment.

As I had no acquaintance, I am happy to say, with the sort of thing he wanted, it was agreed upon between us that I should send to England for a quantity, he, on his part, promising an enormous profit on their being delivered.
I cannot help remarking on the very great inconvenience and distress that were entailed on the South through the want of almost every description of manufacture.