Had the fellow you met the look of one who had left an injured woman behind him?" "I can't say there was any thing about him which said, in so many words, that the woman he had left at her moorings was more or less injured;" returned the tar, with commendable discrimination, "but there was enough about him to show, that, however and wherever he may have stowed his wife, if wife she was, he had not seen fit to leave all her outfit at home.

One Sunday evening, when staggering along by the docks and looking at the different ships, trying to meet with some of his old messmates, he noticed what seemed to him a most curious-looking vessel, and called out to a sailor near him,"What in the name of sense is that odd-looking craft, without sail or steam, good for?" "Have you never before seen the floating chapel?" asked the trim-looking tar whom he accosted.

"I'm Sampson the world over, my lady," replied the tar, "and why shouldn't I be?

"The heartless scoundrel!" cried the worthy tar, "to lead astray one so young and so lovely!

I smell tar ...

On one memorable occasion, at Syracuse, New York, in November, 1842, Douglass and his fellows narrowly escaped tar and feathers.

the Red Rover in my ship, nay, in my very presence!" exclaimed the old tar, in a species of honest horror.

I have sometimes thought it might be well to lie at my mother's side; but she'll excuse an old tar for preferring blue water to one of your country church-yards.

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.

Mrs. Wetmore thought of her lost son as of an innocent smiling babe; and here she found him a red-faced, hard-featured, weather-beaten tar, already verging towards age, and a man of manners that were rough, if not rude.

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.

As Sampson delivered himself of this ludicrous remark, Harry burst into a loud fit of laughter, and handing the tar his glass, he sang out "Sankoty light, ahoy!" which brought all hands on deck in an instant, rubbing open their eyes, (for it was

One is a model of a "fore-and-aft" schooner, with whose rigging or hull the most particular tar could not find fault.

At length Lucy joined in it, when I thought it wisest to leave the old tar in the hands of one so well fitted by nature and education to be the instrument, under the providence of God, of bringing him to a more healthful view of his condition.

In addition to the usual evidences of grief, she mingles the ashes of her dead husband with pitch, making a white tar or unguent, with which she smears a band about two inches wide all around the edge of the hair (which is previously cut off close to the head), so that at a little distance she appears to be wearing a white chaplet.

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

"Ay, ay," muttered this deliberate and grave-looking tar, who was no other than Richard Fid "the stropping you've sent with the fellow is none of the best; and, if he squeaks so now, what will he do when you come to reeve a rope through him!

They then dragged him into a wheelwright's shop near by, where they obtained some tar, with which they coated his face completely.

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.

" The Rover, who saw, by the uneasy glances that she cast aside, and by the expression of her countenance how impatient his companion was becoming for a sequel that approached so tardily, and how much she dreaded an interruption, made a significant sign to her to permit the straight-going tar to take his own course, as the best means of coming at the facts they both longed so much to hear.

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.

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

already I shudder for these comparatively degenerate days of my native village, when you cannot collect a load of bark of good thickness,and we no longer produce tar and turpentine.

Dandelions on lawns, etc., may be killed by cutting them down as low as possible, and putting a little gas-tar or a pinch of salt on the wound.

A bottle of sweet oil was brought into requisition, and she made a lengthened effort to remove the tar from her husband's face, in which she only partially succeeded; and it was almost day when he crawled off to bed, with the skin half scraped off from his swollen face.