eased about governments, but,
in his opinion, the only ra'al tyrant on 'arth was the belly; he did
not remember ever to have had a struggle with his belly--and he had a
thousand--that the belly didn't get the better; that it would be awkward
to lay down the title of lord high admiral, but it was easier to lay
down that than to lay down his head; that as for cauda, though it was
certainly agreeable to be in the fashion, he could do very well without
one, and when he got back to Stunnin'tun, should the worst come to the
worst, there was a certain saddler in the place who could give him
as good a fit as the one he had lost; that Miss Poke would have been
greatly scandalized, however, had he come home after decapitation; that
it might be well to sail for Leaplow as soon as convenient, for in that
country he understood bobs were in fashion, and he admitted that he
should not like to cruise about Leaphigh, for any great length of time,
unless he could look as other people look; for his part, he bore no one
a grudge, and he freely forgave everybody but Bob, out of whom, the Lord
willing, he proposed to have full satisfaction, before the ship should
be twenty-four hours at sea, etc., etc., etc.

Such was the general tendency of the remarks of Captain Poke, as we
proceeded towards the port, where he embarked and went on board the
Walrus, with some eagerness, having learned that our rear-admirals and
post-captains had, indeed, yielded to the calls of nature, and had all
gone to their duty, swearing they would rather be foremast Jacks in a
well-victualled ship, than the king of Leaphigh upon nuts.

The captain had no sooner entered the boat, taking his head with him,
than I began to make my acknowledgments to my brother Downright for the
able manner in which he had defended my fellow human being; paying, at
the same time, some well-merited compliments to the ingenious and truly
philosophical distinctions of the Leaphigh system of jurisprudence.

"Spare your thanks and your commendations, I beg of you, good Sir John,"
returned the brigadier, as we walked back towards my lodgings. "We did
as well as circumstances would allow; though our whole defence would
have been upset, had not the chief-justice very luckily been unable to
read his own handwriting. As for the principles and forms of the monikin
law--for in these particulars Leaplow is very much like Leaphigh--as you
have seen them displayed in these two suits, why, they are such