you do you fee, is, to tack about, "and bear away, because fo be it may happen, you may get your ftanding rigging damaged, or your carved "work crushed by the heavy laden "colliers that are running down to "leeward." The lady fmiled, and said "What you please, captain :" on which they tacked about and bore "Lord!" fays my owner, away. "can no body tell me who that ftrange fish is, and how he came in"to the company of that comely wo"man?" "I can have the pleasure "of fatisfying your curiofity," replies his friend, "for I am intimate "with both that agreeable lady and "her husband, who is here himself; "but he has left them, because he “knows he cannot give her greater pleasure than to be gallanted by B 3 "the "the captain: his uncommon remarks "and the uncouth manner of ex"preffing them are always a high "treat to her." "You must know, that the captain "is commander of a large fhip that "trades to the coaft of Africa for "flaves, from whence he has fetched "his copper complexion; he has been "at fea ever fince he was seven years "old, with fuch short intervals on "fhore, that he knows as little of "land-matters as any of his brother " inhabitants of the great deep; he is "first cousin to this lady's husband, "who was bred up to the law, but, "getting a large fortune with her, "and having no children, he has left "the roguery of that profeffion to "those that chufe it, and lives with "her 7 " her very happily on their income. "The manner of the captain's first in66 troducing himself into her acquain"tance, I fancy, fhe wont eafily for"get." "About five years ago, after "captain Copper-phiz had made his "first voyage, wherein he had been very fuccefsful, hearing that his "coufin had married well, he refolv"ed to pay him a vifit; on which "he ordered a Wapping taylor to "equip him with a new fuit; the taylor not only undertook to per"form his own part towards equiprecommended a 66 ping him o "match his cle "wig: on the "out, they all B "cabbin; the taylor brought the ve ry fuit you fee him have on now; "the hatter the very hat; but the barber, who proved to be an old "Frenchman, did not bring that wig; he had by him an apotheca ry's fhort white bob, made for his "own hair, to comb over the front, "this he told the captain was the tip"top fashion, and accordingly, in 66 pruning his black locks, referved a "fine border in front, to comb over "his curious white wig, which every body must conceive, matched as "well as a dark bay, and a cream"coloured horfe; however, after 66 66 fhaving his beard closer than ever "it had been fince it made its first cc appearance on his chin, and fcowr"ing his face with his washball clean"er than the five foregoing fummer "funs "funs had ever feen it, with the help "of powder and pomatum he made "the black hairs agree with the white "ones much better than could be ex pected, and fent the captain out a "complete Wapponian beau. "On his arrival at the house, he "afked the footman for his coufin "Lovely; the fervant told him his "mafter was expected home every "moment to dinner, but his mistress "was above stairs: "That will do very "well," fays the tar, "I went to fee "madam." Upon which the footman "conducted him into a neat littleparlour, where, when they had not company, this happy couple al-' ways dined. The table cloth was fpread for dinner, in the center of "which stood a neat little pyramid of " jellies |