Town and Country; Or, Life at Home and Abroad, Without and Within Us

grandeur, or majesty, in the mighty abyss of waters, rolling on in their strength-now towering like some vast mountain, and piling wave upon wave, ti

led, the setting sun sinks beneath the horizon, and for miles and

or; the vessel had bravely withstood the storm, and seemed now to be resting after the contest. Not a ripple was to be seen. Far a

t work of God,' somebody says, and that's our captain, every i

hear how that same Prim tried to induce C

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t how w

was, if he was afther a tryi

o his ears a long tirade against a man's enjoying himself, and, by the aid of thee, thy, and tho

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hen balances both, as it were, on the point of a needle, and decid

inch, from the crown of his hat

keep still?" said Mr.

signified th

lew up as 't were a feather; but down went the evidence for,

tain, all over,

lazily along, but remained almost motionless,-not like a thing of life, but like a thing lifeless,-the captain ordered the crew

the most foolish set of reformers myself in particular, and the Un

he used to live up twelve pairs of stairs,-he and the man in the moon were next-door neighbors; they used to smoke together, and the jolly times they passed were never recorded, for there were no newspapers in those dark ages, and the people were

eeping temperate!" said

r did me harm. When I find

of Father Neptune-d

re commanded in an instant, each with his tin can half filled with liquor. Captain Marlin, seeing this, ordered them to dri

a small black sp