hat Waroonga and Betsy returned home, that a
stalwart son of Tomeo went in after years, to Sugar-loaf Island, and
carried off Lippy as his bride, along with her mother; that a handsome
son of Ongoloo took revenge by carrying Zariffa away from Ratinga,
without her mother; that regular and frequent intercourse was set up
between the two islands by means of a little schooner; that Ebony stuck
to his master and mistress through thick and thin to a good old age;
that Orlando went to England, studied medicine, and returned again to
Ratinga with a fair daughter of that favoured land; that Wapoota's
morals improved by degrees; that Buttchee became more reconciled to
European dress as he grew older; and that the inhabitants of the two
islands generally became wiser and happier--though of course not
perfect--through the benign influence of that Gospel which teaches man
to do to others as he would have others do to him.

Time, as usual, continued to work his marvellous changes as the years
flew by, but of all the transformations he wrought none was so striking
as that produced in two men of Ratinga, who daily sat down, side by
side, in front of their cottage by the sea, to watch a host of children
of all ages, sizes, and complexions, which gambolled merrily on the
sands. These men were old and somewhat feeble, with hair like the
driven snow, but their gentle expressions and ready smiles told of
eternal youth within. As the one sat with his colossal frame still
erect though spare, talking softly to his comrade, and the other sat
slightly bent, with eyes gazing sometimes at the children, and sometimes
at his wooden toes, how difficult how almost impossible, to believe
that, in former days, the one had been the madman, and the other the
pirate!

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