Captain Brand of the Centipede""

on my old grandmother's wig!" muttered B

ined as before. It was getting on toward eight o'clock, and while the cook was dishing the breakfast mess for the crew beneath an awning forward of the quarter-deck, the captain came up from his cabin bel

ey! No signs of

ther since you went below at four o'clock. But we have sagged inshore by the current a

a forty-four days' passage––so I

wide open, clapped his hands together thrice, and then, placing them to

ands! Heave out, Lady B

ntly an inner door swung back, and the sweetest little tot of a boy came tumbling out into the open space, and sprang at once into the captain's arms. The

es and cinnamon, eh? And dear lazy mamma shuts her pret

rrily in a slightly foreign accent, while the contra

too," she went on in her Creole accent, "how I love and want to see my dear husband these last four years, since you carried him away in your