Recollections of the Last Days of Shelley And Byron
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The captain was on shore, so I talked to the mate, a smart specimen of a Yankee. When I commended her beauty, he said, " I do expect, now we have our new copper LAST DAYS OF SHELLEY AND EYRON. 87 on, she has a look of the brass sarpent, she has as slick a run, and her bearings are just where they should be." I said we wished to build a boat after her model. " Then I calculate you must go to Baltimore or Boston to get one ; there is no one on this side the water can do the job. We have our freig...ht all ready, and are homeward-bound ; we have elegant accommodation, and you will be across before your young friend's beard is ripe for a razor. Come down, and take an observa- tion of the state cabin." It was about seven and a half feet by five ; " plenty of room to live or die comfortably in," he observed, and then pressed us to have a chaw of real old Virginian cake, i. e, tobacco, and a cool drink of peach brandy. I made some observation to him about the Greek vessel we had visited. •' Crank as an eggshell," he said ; " too many sticks and top hamper, she looks like a bundle of chips going to hell to be burnt." I seduced Shelley into drinking a wine-glass of weak grog, the first and last he ever drank.
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