Wot can you expect when the watchman is sitting in a pub all the evening?' "The cook said I ought to be 'ung, and a young ordinary seaman wot was standing beside 'im said he would sooner I was boiled.

There she lay, inclining a little, partly on her bilge, or sewed, as seamen term it, when a vessel gets a list from touching the ground and being left by the tide, neither quite upright, nor absolutely on her beam-ends.

To cling to slipp'ry shrouds, Each breathless seaman crowds, As she lay, till the day, In the Bay of Biscay O!

On the poop and the forecastle the marines, in two little red lines, were pouring in their volleys, but neither they nor the seamen-gunners could see what effect their fire was having.

The masts unbending bear the sails: Thee now the grateful seaman blesses, Thee at this moment Fortune hails.

Sailors must eat; but there is a significant distinction between merchant-seamen and man-o'-war's-men.

208 Our greedy seamen rummage every hold, Smile on the booty of each wealthier chest; And, as the priests who with their gods make bold, Take what they like, and sacrifice the rest.

Lying Bill and McHenry were seamen-traders ashore until their schooner sailed for another swing about the French groups of islands.

What became of the 44,000 men not required, of whom about 35,000 must have been of the seaman class and have been discharged from the service?