Although the large casks had been carefully coopered in Sydney, yet the hot climate had opened the joints, and as there were three to five feet of water in the vessel when aground in the lower part of the river, the bread was completely saturated.

[Footnote 2: Mr. Cooper, in his ingenious work entitled the Life of Socrates, speaks in a very different strain of the bishop's History of the Royal Society, which he calls a 'Fustian History!'

Cooper's Some English Story Tellers (Kipling).

Sir Grey Cooper; Aldermen Sawbridge, Watson, and Newnham; Mr. Marsham, and Mr. Cruger, contended strenuously for it instead of abolition.

Apart from fiction, Cooper's principal subject was American naval history.

Cooper died at Cooperstown, the family locality, on September 14.

The party rode first to Tom Cooper's hut, and there, having dismounted, leading their horses through the forest, followed the trail, as only men long accustomed to savage life can do.

A few years after, Susan Cooper,no longer "pretty Susan," for time and grief had done their workheard, late one night, a hurried knock, which was repeated several times before she could open the door, each time more loudly than before.

She was as a daughter to the old man, and a sister to his sons, who often said, "That, as far as they were concerned, the Indians had never done a kindlier action than in burning down Susan Cooper's hut.

Mr. Cooper and Miss Sedgwick are, perhaps, alone among our writers in their attempts to do the Indian justice, while making him the poetical machine in fiction.

Enquiries into this story gave satisfactory results, and a box made from her timbers was presented to J. Fennimore Cooper, the American author, with letters authenticating, as far as possible, the vessel from which the wood had been taken.

Miss Cooper mentions this box in her preface to her father's Red Rover, and several other relics of the old ship are still to be found in the neighbourhood of Newport.

The lieutenants appointed to the Resolution were Robert Pallisser Cooper, Charles Clerke, and Richard Pickersgill, and Mr. Tobias Furneaux, Commander, and Joseph Shank first lieutenant, of the Adventure.

The Resolution, contending against adverse winds, made a very slow trip down to the Nore, being four days on the journey, and Mr. Cooper reported to Cook that she was very crank.

On the 17th April they sighted the George Islands, discovered by Byron (native name, Tiookea), but, after sending the Master to report on the lagoon, Cook decided it was too dangerous to enter, and Mr. Cooper went off with two boats to see if it were possible to trade.

The doctor's musket was stolen, then Mr. Clerke's, then some other things and a cooper's adze; and Cook, though at first inclined to take no notice, felt compelled to seize two canoes, and himself wounded a man, who had rendered himself conspicuous by his disorderly conduct, with a charge of small shot, and it was at first rumoured he was killed.

The latitude was found to be 15 degrees 5 minutes South, and Mr. Cooper, who went ashore with the boats, reported that he landed near a fine stream of fresh water, "probably one of those mentioned by De Quiros; and if we were not deceived, we saw the other.

Kempe, Cooper, and Clerke were promoted to Commanders; and Isaac Smith, Lieutenant.

Cook, Mrs. Cooper, R.P. Crozet, De. Dalrymple.

William Cooper, Esq. John Coore, Esq. Mrs. Coore.

The Rev. Dr. Cooper, Prebendary of Durham.

He had the whole thing coopered up in a barrel at that minute.

why, I have lost my leg, and the captain's clerk says I am not in the return!Look here, sir, had doctor Kelson not coopered me, where should I have been?Why, doctor, had I been looked after, amputation might have been unnecessary; a fish might have done, whereas I have had to be spliced."

THE RUNAWAY ASTEROID THE STARMAN SERIES by Michael D. Cooper MUTINY ON MARS THE RUNAWAY ASTEROID JOURNEY TO THE TENTH PLANET DESCENT INTO EUROPA

In stormy weather, when none could stir abroad, they turned or coopered the wooden vessels; for tin cups were as rare as iron forks, and the "noggin" was either hollowed out of the knot of a tree, or else made with small staves and hoops.