has often done in all weathers. I shall sell the outside case to serve
a shipmate in distress; but the watch was left me by a dear friend,
so I shall keep her: a metal case will do as well for a little
time, and when fortune's breeze springs up again, _the case will
be altered_."--"Vel, shair, you shall be obeyed: five pounds, five
shillings is just the price of the weight; there's the money."--"Good
morning, Master Moses; but do you, _Clewlines_, set sail again; I
want to get you into port: it is only what I owe you. Were you not the
kindest creature to me in the world _when I was confined to my berth
with the yellow fever, and not expected to live a day?_ Come, come,
you must take your cargo in; you must be _victualled_ as well as
_refitted_. I have got a chalk at a house near this,--another shipmate
who is set up in business in a public line: call for what you want,
and here's the loose change to keep your pocket until something turns
up." Poor Bob got a _good dinner_, a _good bed_, and a _snug hammock_,
that night; and shortly afterwards he obtained a birth in an Indiaman,
and is now doing well. The royal reefer's heart bounded with joy at
performing this noble action to recover which he put himself for a
month on short allowance. But this is only one of many such traits
in the character of this heart of oak whose name the writer could
scarcely venture to state, but who will here remember this scene.

HARRY HATCHWAY.

_H.M.S. Perseus, off the Tower, Nov._ 1827.

[Footnote 1: "Naval and Military Magazine," No. 3.]

[Footnote 2: Ibid.]