You a'n't on the quarter-deck yet, bullying a tar with his hat off.

A rope was tossed to them, and in a few moments five stalwart jack tars in the uniform of the British Navy stood on the deck.

" Mr. Godwin holds forth his hand, but ere he would take it, Dawson looks him full in the face a good minute; then, taking it in his great grimy hand, and grasping it firmly, "Master," says Jack, "I see thou art an honest man, and none lives who hath ever sold me tar for pitch, be he never so double-faced, and so I wish you joy of your sweet wife.

In Britain it was discovered about fifty years before the birth of Christ, in Lancashire, not tar from where Manchester now stands; but for ages after its discovery, so long as forests abounded, wood continued to be the fuel used for firing.

The sun melted the tar of the rigging, and the seams of the decks began to open.

The water curled from the bows of this castle of the ocean, in increasing waves and growing murmurs, that at times drew the attention of the veteran tar to their quickening progress, and having cheered his heart with the sight, he cast his experienced eye in silence on the swelling sails, to see if nothing more could be done to shorten the distance between him and his country.

Fernando Stevens, in due time, called on Captain Lane, whom he found to be as jolly an old Jack Tar as lives.

But have you never, in all your wanderings, met with those whom, you can call your friends?" "A rough old tar like me, I must say, would not be the most inviting craft to interchange signals with, but, thank God, I have found one, in my long life of wanderings who was worthy the name of friend!

When I was a boy, and the sheep did that, we thought that they had colds in their heads, and used to rub tar on their noses.

In the consideration of these, the mind would not be able to go tar without the help of words, and those peculiarly fitted to the purpose.

The lads carry lighted torches or flaming hoops steeped in tar at the top of long poles.

They then tied his hands behind him, and took him to a small piece of bush near by,then tore off his coat, vest, and cravat, and with a jack-knife cut off his hair, occasionally cutting his scalp,and, remarking that they had a plaster that would heal it up, they tarred his head and body, and poured tar into his boots.

Now they are aboard the boat, which exhales a strong, healthy smell of tar under the hot sun.

The latter, upon opening his eyes, would have got up, but this his officer would not allow; and he was placed on a stretcher and carried by four tars up to the heights, where he was laid in one of the sod huts, and his arm, which was badly fractured, set by the surgeon.

" "And so it did!" exclaimed the weeping Natalie, holding the great rough hand of the tar within her own; "the little bark bore her in safety to a peaceful shore, where she was received with open arms by those who have filled the place of her natural parents.

I got the tar about my hair and face: but I struck it away as well as I could, and when my head came above water, I heard the cannon ashore firing for distress.