Suer thys should be the day of Valentyne When everye byrd dothe coople, onlye I Pore forlorne turtle, haveinge lost my mate, Must dye on a bare braunche.

"No, mate," ses Sam.

" "That's the worst of having a fool for a mate," said the skipper, bitterly.

"I could keep down the fo'-c's'le while the mate took the ship out.

" The seaman, marvelling greatly, withdrew, and the skipper, throwing himself on a locker, wiped a bit of grit out of his eye and sat down to wait for the mate.

"Anything wrong?" inquired the mate, retreating a couple of paces in disorder.

How dare you go making inquiries about me?" "Me?" said the mate, backing as far as possible.

"Me?" said the mate, in the shrill accents of astonishment.

"Cert'nly not," said the mate, plucking up courage.

"Besides, it ain't the fust time you've been out all night," remarked the mate, aggressively.

She did go part o' the way, and then, when she found that Ted wouldn't send his mate off, she came back and, woman-like, said as 'ow she wasn't going to go 'ome just to please Charlie Brice.

Master and mate nodded in grim appreciation of the crew's efforts.

" "I 'ope you will, mate," ses Bob; "that's what I joined for.

" "Let bygones be bygones, Bob," ses Bill Chambers, trying to smile at 'im. "No, mate," ses Bob Pretty.

"We was always pals, Bill, you and me," ses Silas; "many a v'y'ge 'ave we had together, mate, and now I'm a-laying at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, and you are snug and 'appy in your own warm bed.

His name was James Marra, and he will be again met with as gunner's mate on the Resolution.

Isaac Smith and Isaac Manly were appointed respectively Master's mate and midshipman, taking part in the Second Voyage, being too young for further promotion.

When the anchor was weighed on 14th May, Marra, the gunner's mate, whose Journal has been quoted, quietly slipped into the water, and endeavoured to reach a canoe which was hanging about to pick him up, but he was seen and taken on board again.

With little difficulty he was found to be Marra, the gunner's mate who tried to desert at Otaheite, and the publication was stayed till after the authorised version was out.

In proof of this reference may be made to the report of Mr. Perry, surgeon's mate, and, after Mr. Monkhouse's death, surgeon on board.

That evening, for the first time in his life, Captain Nugent, after some deliberation, called upon his late mate.

The startling placard While her mate stood beside her Surrounding them were fierce Indian dogs The beautiful reflections in the water

Beautiful gulls of different varieties were there nesting, and by following Mary's directions the children were delighted to find that they could approach very near to the nests of some of them without disturbing the mother bird while her mate, in fearless confidence, stood on guard beside her.

[Illustration: While her mate stood beside her.] "Now, Mary, hurrah for a story!" cried the children, as they sat at lunch.

And made me, when it cam', A bird without a mate, A ewe without a lamb.