I have no doubt as to its essential truth, nor do I question the purpose which dominated this rover of the sea in his effort to record the adventures of his younger life.

"If we work it right we can get Tom Rover in a peck of trouble.

"Now be good and take care of yourselves," said Mr. Rover on parting.

" "That's Tom, wanting to see it all before he sleeps!" cried Sam Rover with a grin.

"I'm going to pay off Professor Sharp for some of his meannessand pay off Tom Rover at the same time.

He considered his nephew the greatest of the Ferraguts, a true man of the sea like his ancestors but with the title of captain;an adventurous rover over all oceans, as he had been, but with a place on the bridge, invested with the absolute command that responsibility and danger confer.

By 1689 a number of sea rovers from the West Indies had made their appearance, and the factory at Fort St. George reported that the sea trade was 'pestered with pirates.'

They would meet occasionally after tea, and with Rover by their side, stroll down by the stream which wound in fanciful little curves about the lot; or would play at ball, on the green before the house.

I'mersorry I got Rover into itreally I am.

He told me he had had a rough experience on the ocean during the hurricane, and he blames you Rovers for all his troubles.

" "Are you hurt, Sam?" asked Tom as he helped the youngest Rover to his feet.

The usage I had there was not so dreadful as at first I apprehended; nor was I carried up the country to the emperor's court, as the rest of our men were, but was kept by the captain of the rover as his proper prize, and made his slave, being young and nimble, and fit for his business.

Mr. Saxby and Mr. Marchant are said to have had the same strain as that at Rosehill, and certainly one of the most famous sires who is to be found in most Sussex pedigrees was Buckingham, by Marchant's Rover out of Saxby's Fan.

" A shade of gloomy distrust, which had gathered over the brow of the Rover during the foregoing scene, lighted a little as he listened to the direct and frank avowal of his lieutenant.

Byron, like the rovers before Minos, was not ashamed of his piracy.

" "Which means that he's a rover like ourselves," said Willet.