e way, is said to be true, produced the usual admiration, especially
among the crowd of lega-tees-expectant, to most of whom it was quite new.
When the laugh went out, which it soon did of itself, Joe pursued a
subject that was of more interest to most of his auditors, or rather to
the principal personages among them.

"Skins never brought a craft so low, that you may be sartain of!" he
resumed. "I've seed all sorts of vessels stowed, but a hundred
press-screws couldn't cram in furs enough to bring a craft so low! To my
eye, Jim, there's suthin' unnat'ral about that schooner, a'ter all."

The study is scarce worthy of a diploma, but we will take this occasion to
say, for the benefit of certain foreign writers, principally of the female
sex, who fancy they represent Americanisms, that the vulgar of the great
republic, and it is admitted there are enough of the class, never say
"summat" or "somethink," which are low English, but not low American,
dialect. The in-and-in Yankee says "suth-in." In a hundred other words
have these ambitious ladies done injustice to our vulgar, who are not
vulgar, according to the laws of Cockayne, in the smallest degree. "_The_
Broadway," for instance, is no more used by an American than "_the_
Congress," or "the United States of _North_ America."

"Perhaps," answered Jim, "'tisn't the Sea Lion, a'ter all. There's a
family look about all the craft some men build, and this may be a sort of
relation of our missin' schooner."

"I'll not answer for the craft, though that's her blue peter, and them's
her mast-heads, and I turned in that taw-sail halyard-block with my own
hands.--I'll tell you what, Jim, there's been a wrack, or a nip, up
yonder, among the ice, and this schooner has been built anew out of that
there schooner You see if it don't turn out as I tell you. Ay, and
there's Captain Gar'ner, himself, alive and well, just comin' forrard."

A little girl started with this news, and was soon pour ing it into the
willing ears and open heart of the weeping and grateful Mary. An hour
later, Roswell held the latter in his arms; for at such a moment, it was
not possible for the most scrupulous of the sex to affect coldness and
reserve, where there was so much real tenderness and love. While folding
Mary to his heart, Roswell whispered in her ears the blessed words that
announced his own humble submission to the faith which accepted Christ as
the Son of God. Too well did the gentle and ingenuous