Harry had never written his mother of the brutal treatment which he had received from his first captain, but he had said that Neptune had been the means of saving his life, and that the old fellow was getting to be quite a sailor, inasmuch as he could take a turn on the quarter-deck with as much dignity as the captain himself.

" "Neptune, with his coarse devices, is no stranger to you, Madam.

DARIA. Is not Neptune the sea? CHRYSANTHUS.

"And you, too, my old Neptune, aren't you the best and handsomest dog in the universe?" Neptune finding himself addressed, awoke leisurely from his slumbers, and fixed his eyes on mine with an affirmative expression.