Thet's whut I know about Sanchez." "I had a shipmate once," I observed, interested in his story, "who claimed to have seen the fellow; he described him as being a very large man, with intensely black hawklike eyes, and a heavy black beard almost hiding his face.

"Whymy Porges!" said Bellew, a trifle huskily, perhaps, "why, Shipmate!"

"Oh, Uncle Porges!then youhave come back to me!" "Aye, aye, Shipmate.

" "But we shall need a couple of spades, Shipmate.

Ready?then heave ahead, Shipmate.

"Where do you s'pose we'd better begin?" "Well, Shipmate, between you and me, and the pitch-fork here, I rather fancy 'King Arthur' knows more than most people would think.

"Is it heavy, Shipmate?" "Awful heavy!"

It be 'ard to 'ave to let the old place go, but" "Heave ahead, Shipmate!" whispered Bellew.

An' while I looked at it, it talked to me, an' it told me a lot of things,an' that's how I know that you aregoing away, 'cause you are, you know,aren't you?" "Why, my Porges," said Bellew, fumbling with his pipe, "why Shipmate, Isince you ask meI am.

" "Aye aye, Captain!" "Thenfare thee well, Shipmate!

"On this here monumentous occasion, Mrs. Belloo," the sailor proceeded, "my shipmate, Dick, and me, mam,respectfully beg the favour of saluting the bride;Mrs.

I thought he would turn out an unsatisfactory shipmate; yet there was something redeeming in the tones of his voice, when, some time after he had indulged his sullen meditation, he again addressed Fletcher; so that, instead of finding him ill-natured, I was soon convinced he was only capricious.

shopmate, fellow-worker, shipmate, messmate^; fellow companion, boon companion, pot companion; copartner, partner, senior partner, junior partner.

It's some years ago now, and the chap it 'appened to was a young man, a shipmate o' mine, named Charlie Tagg.

In the morning he went and hunted up a shipmate of 'is, a young feller named Jack Bates.

You have been in foreign parts, shipmate, or I may call you 'messmate,' since we are both anchored nigh the same kidbut you have doubtless been in foreign countries?" "Often; I should else be but a miserable seaman.

Prayers were read in the morning, and both Captain Guy and Captain Ellice addressed the men feelingly in allusion to their late shipmate's death and their own present position.

Hercules, my shipmate.

On the present occasion, he was ready to say whatever he thought would most conform to his shipmate's wishes, and luckily he construed the expression of the other's countenance aright.

" "I have been your shipmate often, and for years at a time," answered Cuffe good-naturedly, though a little in the manner of a superior; "and no one knows your history better.

Yer didn't explain in the note, but old Captain job Hudgins'll always stand by a shipmate in distress.

Say, shipmate, yer hangs about this here L wharf a lot.

Occasionally the beautiful prayers were interrupted by the roar of the foaming waters as the ship plunged onwards; then swelling on the breeze and mingling with its wailings they were wafted, we would fain hope, to that peaceful home to which we were sending our shipmate.

At Perth we found our old shipmate Miago, and were sorry to observe that he was as great a savage as ever.

" "It was an old shipmate of mine," said Mr. Burton.