" Irritated at this extreme politeness to our gallant tars, who have so long "braved the battle and the breeze," I did not trouble farther the dauntless Genoese, who certainly was not destined to become a Columbus.

The personal appearance of the honest tar was well adapted to the character he was thus called on so unexpectedly to support.

The march was rapid; and the jolly tars, unused to such extended journeys, appear to have suffered from its effects; in consequence of which, although the enemy gradually fell back before the advancing column, between one and two o'clock, when near the Rancho de los Domingos, fourteen miles from San Pedro, it became necessary to halt and encamp for the night.

"A rough old tar," laughed Will, for the sake of the flash in his wife's eyes.

These shoes before being worn had to be greased with tallow, with a little tar in it.

Now, I dare say that yonder worthy old tar is ignorant of the manner in which a ship, when pressed by her canvas, is made to 'cut the waves with her taffrail.'

A sloop of amber slips away Upon an ether sea, And wrecks in peace a purple tar, The son of ecstasy.

Mrs. Wetmore thought of her lost son as of an innocent smiling babe; and here she found him a red-faced, hard-featured, weather-beaten tar, already verging towards age, and a man of manners that were rough, if not rude.

HURRAH!!!" shouted the grateful tars, making the welkin ring.

Some of 'em have rather rough voyages, and come into port pretty well battered; land-sharks fall foul of a good many, and do a deal of damage; but most of 'em carry brave and tender hearts under the blue jackets, for their rough nurse, the sea, manages to keep something of the child alive in the grayest old tar that makes the world his picture-book.

He ascertained this fact by means of Bob Betts, which true-hearted tar stood by him, with a lantern, by swinging which low enough, the marks were seen on the lead-line.

"These words, followed by a glorious burst of shrill sounds, 'long drawn out,' are hailed with a murmur of delight by many a hungry tar and many a jolly marine.

Some ingenious tar, whose name deserves a better fate than the oblivion into which it has fallen, attained this object by "arming" the bottom of the lead with a lump of grease, to which more or less of the sand or mud, or broken shells, as the case might be, adhered, and was brought to the surface.

A dozen intrepid tars from a British man-of-warto be seen in the offingare in the act of casting a net over him.

The aged tar lifted his bending frame from the stone, and bowed low, as he answered,"If I have the honour of seeing my Admiral's Lady, it will prove a joyful sight to my old eyes.

"If the sheep has suffered any wound during the shearing, it should be treated with liquid tar.

A rising sea, however, aided the object of the directly-minded old tar, or our narration of the exploits of the piece would end with the discharge, since its shot would otherwise have inevitably plunged into a wave, within a few yards of its muzzle.

" "Ever since the war the United States navy has had a fair representation of Negro bluejackets, and they make first-class naval tars.

He neither commented on, nor complained, however, of an occurrence he evidently found so extraordinary, but appeared perfectly disposed to pursue the spirit of that well-known maxim of the mariner which teaches the obedient tar "to obey orders, though he break owners."

" Accordingly they stopped at the nearest pump, and endeavoured to remove some of the obnoxious tar from his face; but, unfortunately, the only result obtained by their efforts was to rub it more thoroughly in, so they were compelled to give up in despair, and hasten onward.

And every word of the sermon was just suited to the plain tars whom he was addressing.

A rope was tossed to them, and in a few moments five stalwart jack tars in the uniform of the British Navy stood on the deck.

" "None shall put foot on the deck of the 'Dart,' without submitting to the authority of her royal master," returned the stern old tar.

" "Ay; and now I think on it, 'twas Dick Harman that has the boat down therean old tar like myselfthat told me that yarn.

Though our trusty tar, Henry, had doubtless never heard "The Yarn of the 'Nancy Bell'" and had never eaten a shipmate in his life, yet he had a whole crew within himself as truly as the "elderly naval man" who had eaten one.