The pilot: a tale of the sea. By J. Fenimore Cooper.

this week, ot next we\teke or1 fori thtat natt the(
\week aftte p 0rovide it be bad weath t er. I sothle
timIes aI mvawVkicsh abouit atttending muster, (and I
b:)elieve II have ats little to ftear ont tihe score of }be
haytlour as any manl) lest it 1shotd be ibund I tearCir41 Itny i t;' tbac(co intt. \\thewotng cheek!'
"I have indeed thought it somewhat troublesome to myself, at timnes; al it i s in a striking
d(egree tvexatious t to the spirfit, especially wheni the
b)ody has Ibeent sltlTring under sea-sicktness."
-- Why, y)es, you were a little ap)t to br.entid your
duds Nwrong ftor thle first tont11I ort sor,' staid the:
master; " X remetiber you got tihe matrie's:tscraper oi yon ur head: once, in youl hutrry to bury a
(lead 111man! l11lif youtt nlever lookedi as if yout be,
(longed to the ship, so lonI as those cursed blacfr
knee-breehesl l asted! P or my jiart) I never sav i
olt come up the qtarter-deck ladder, but I exp)ceted to see your 8shilns g-ive way across the,
t1om1)tintg0 of the hatch. —.a man (foes look like the
devil, priest, scudding about a ship's Aeclks in that
ftlfi'ho, I l under bare poles! But nowt the tailor has
found o ut the articles ar't't sea-vworthy andl we
have got your lottt er stancethions casedt in a pait of
purser's slops, I am ittt:zzled often to tell youtr theels
fi'om those of a maintop-man t"; I IC have good reason to he thank1fl:fi tlhe
change," said the hum1)11bled priest, " if thle resemnblancce you mention existed, Ntwhile I was clad in
tlhet usual garb, of one of mv calainig.'
c What signifies a cal ling?>' returnted Boltrope,
cattching hIlis breath after a most p)eltrsevexring
dratgtht; a man's shit r are his shits,'let his uppeI' works hbeloug, to Ntwhat sarvice they may, I.
took an early y)ej tudyce against k net-tbreteches,
peiliaps from a tric.k I'veI always hadt of figuring
the devil as w\eatring themt. Yiou know, parso