should have done if I had eaten the whole of it. But I was forced to
restrain my mirth, for the next moment the steward ran upon deck, followed
by the captain, in a furious rage, threatening if he caught him to throw
him overboard. Not a spoonful of the soup had been left in the coppers,
for the steward had taken it all away at once to keep it warm. In about an
hour afterwards the passengers came upon deck, looking more sober than I
had seen them since we left Liverpool. They had dined upon cold ham.


DEFINTIONS.--1. Re-served', kept back, retained. 2. Lick'er. ish, eager or
greedy to swallow. Aft, toward the stern of a vessel. Pro-spec'tive,
relating to the future. Force'meat, meat chopped fine and highly seasoned.
Unc'tu-ous, fat. 5. Glaz'ing, glass or glass-like substance. Bin'na-cle, a
box containing the compass of a ship. 6. Gal'ley, the kitchen of a ship.
7. Tu-reen', a large deep vessel for holding soup. Gang'way, a passageway.
Lee, pertaining to the side opposite that against which the wind blows.
Scup'pers, channels cut through the side of a ship for carrying off water
from the deck. Cop'pers, large copper boilers.


NOTE.--6. Four bells; i.e., two o'clock.



LXXXV. THE BEST KIND OF REVENGE.

1. Some years ago a warehouseman in Manchester, England, published a
scurrilous pamphlet, in which he endeavored to hold up the house of Grant
Brothers to ridicule. William Grant remarked upon the occurrence that the
man would live to repent of what he had done; and this was conveyed by