But the British tars stuck to their guns and they continued to hurl shells into the German line until the water of the North Sea washed over them.

Jack forgot all about reporting to Captain Raleigh for further orders, and as the battle raged, he continued to fire one of the big 16-inch gunshe and other unwounded British tars.

He says: "No one could vanquish me Were I not just a trifle ill to-day." Qaddour, the little cock, the drummer-boy, Who hangs on walls and colors houses here Or tars roofs with his mates, exclaims: "I took This voyage just to get a bit of air.

The march was rapid; and the jolly tars, unused to such extended journeys, appear to have suffered from its effects; in consequence of which, although the enemy gradually fell back before the advancing column, between one and two o'clock, when near the Rancho de los Domingos, fourteen miles from San Pedro, it became necessary to halt and encamp for the night.

No sea captain becalmed in the doldrums ever whistled for a wind more earnestly than the British Jack tars prayed for a chance at the enemy during those three months of playing the cat to Germany's mouse; and on the other hand, the German sailors were, no doubt, equally desirious of a chance to demonstrate the fighting abilities of their brand-new battleships.

" Irritated at this extreme politeness to our gallant tars, who have so long "braved the battle and the breeze," I did not trouble farther the dauntless Genoese, who certainly was not destined to become a Columbus.

These clownish tars were deeply coloured, and some quite black.

A dozen intrepid tars from a British man-of-warto be seen in the offingare in the act of casting a net over him.

There, when the squadron comes in, officers in uniform dance at desperate sailors' pace with delicate Creoles; some of them, coloured as well as white, so beautiful in face and figure that one could almost pardon the jolly tars if they enacted a second Mutiny of the Bounty, and refused one and all to leave the island and the fair dames thereof.

Public gratitude, therefore, stamps her seal upon it, and the meed should not be withheld which may hereafter operate as a stimulus to our gallant tars.

We left Liverpool yesterday morning, as I wrote you we should, and as we passed the ships of war in the harbor We were cheered from the rigging by the tars of the various vessels, and the flags of others were dipped as a salute, all of which were returned by us in kind.

" "Ever since the war the United States navy has had a fair representation of Negro bluejackets, and they make first-class naval tars.

Hurrah, my fine Jack Tars!

Thus Death, who kings and tars dispatches, In vain Tom's life has doff'd; For though his body's under hatches, His soul is gone aloft.

Hearts of oak are our ships, Gallant tars are our men; We always are ready: Steady, boys, steady!

" The storm, that like a shapeless wreck, Had strew'd with rigging all the deck, That tars for sharks had giv'n a feast, And left the ship a hulkhad ceas'd: When Jack, as with his messmates dear, He shared the grog their hearts to cheer, Took from his 'bacco-box a quid, And spell'd for comfort on the lid "If you loves I, as I loves you, No pair so happy as we two.

In 1757 he wrote a popular afterpiece, entitled "The Reprisals; or, the Tars of England;" and in 1758 appeared his "Complete History of England," in four volumes, quarto,a work said to have been compiled in the almost incredibly short time of fourteen months.

In less than six weeks Coronel has been avenged at the battle of the Falkland Islands: Hardened steel are our ships; Gallant tars are our men; We never are wordy (STURDEE, boys, STURDEE!), But quietly conquer again and again.

His dress, like that of most Jack tars, was naturally rugged, and he contrived to make it more so than usual.

It is true the ship was provisioned for more than a year, but most of the provisions were salt, and Tom Singleton could have told them, had they required to be told, that without fresh provisions they stood a poor chance of escaping that dire disease scurvy, before which have fallen so many gallant tars whom nothing in the shape of dangers or difficulties could subdue.

R82201, 13Aug51, Adaline B. Wheeler & Ralph E. Wheeler (C) WHIPS, CLARA E. The jolly tars; lyrics and music by Clara E. Whips.

Nelson loves to prefer old tars; and nothing would make him happier than to be able to serve you.

May our officers and tars be valiant and brave.

To Nelson's memory here's a health, And to his gallant tars, And, may our British seamen bold Despise both wounds and scars; Make France and Spain, And all the main, And all their foes to know, Britons reign o'er the main While the stormy winds do blow.

Though our bold tars are fortune's sport, may they ever be fortune's care.