Jim Pink Staggs, a dapper gentleman of ebony blackness, of pin-stripe flannels and blue serge coat altogether a gentleman of many partssat on one of the bales and indolently watched an old black crone fishing from a ledge of rocks just a little way below the wharf-boat.

But he was wounded for our transgressions, Crushed because of our iniquities; The chastisement for our well-being was upon him, And through his stripes healing came to us.

Male: head and neck dark-colored, with a long white stripe lengthwise on each side.

The cat ran away crying, with both black stripes ridges of fur sticking up straight, while the rest of the fur lay nice and smooth; and the mice giggled so that their ears nearly wiggled off their heads.

It has been spared neither rain, wind, nor salt sea spray, tropic heat nor Arctic cold; it has outlived many sets of buttons, from their glittering gilded youth to green old age, and it supports its four-stripe shoulder straps as gaily as the single lace ring of the early days which proclaimed it the possession of a humble sub-lieutenant.