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swinish snore of the patient, whose chin and face, reposing in the palms 

 of his hands, were supported in an upright posture by his elbows on the 

 table. The monster was fast asleep. 



" I say, maester," said a north country grazier, thrusting the brass 

 end of a heavy riding whip against his ribs, " rouse ye mon, ye're rawt- 

 ing at such-un-a rate, ye're fit to flare the woman and bairns out of the 

 vessel." 



Something between a gasp and a grunt alone escaped the sleeper. 



" Holloa ! mon ! we mun brod these ribs a bit sharper, fur, my word 

 thou's a rare hide to cover them, as ay guess'd: folks cant have a bit 

 o' talk, and lizzen each other, whiles ye keep up sic-un-a clattering din 

 with that great rauming nose o' thine. Blame his foul carcase ! an' he 

 gangs this gate, we'd as weel ha' been in a mistal, with a lot o' new 

 calven kye." 



So saying, my plain dealing neighbour thrust the snorer's hands from 

 under his chin, and allowed his nose to fall plump into the tumbler of 

 porter between his elbows ; the cool porter, fractured glass, and concus- 

 sion and haemorrhage of his " leading feature," effectually aroused both 

 the sleeper and his ire. 



My neighbour and I walked on deck. I now approached a squad of 

 females ; a motley assemblage of every grade of cockneyology, arrayed 

 in all the lustrous insolence of cheap silks, and oyster-shell bonnets, 

 varying, in flagrant vulgarity of assumption, from the tittering, wide- 

 mouthed, lisping, straw bonnet 'prentice, to the more recognized pre- 

 tension of the mistress of a ' leg of beef soup house/ I know not whe- 

 ther the observation may have occurred so familiarly to others, but I 

 have uniformly noted that, upon the casual collision, or even premedi- 

 tated introduction to each other, of females, moving in the atmosphere 

 of life I have alluded to the first object, to which each individual ad- 

 dresses her attention is, the elaborate survey of the " mise " of her op- 

 ponent, and of the texture and quality of her apparel : here then, to 

 me at least, is one un-erring test of the essentially low-bred, vulgar 

 mind. It is not requisite that the ludicrous bend of the head, or body, 

 in salutation, or that the expulsion of slaughtered language from the 

 mouth should confirm the fact of which I speak, it suffices to notice the 

 greedy and repulsive roll of the eye, as it ranges from the head-dress, 

 over the whole toilet, even to the shoes, to stamp the truth. 



All the little, narrow, shabby feelings of wooman-hood, are let loose, 

 in magic-Ian thorn, perspective, on these occasions : all the delicacy, all 

 the amiability, all the brilliant, noble, and endearing qualities of the 

 heart, which render their love and attachment so sacred to our own 

 sex, all are here most cruelly caricatured, and trodden down under the 

 colossal stride of envy, jealousy, and detraction. 



As the breeze continued to freshen, the ruffled sea yielded in boister- 

 ous submission to its powers : all comfort was now at an end the hoy 

 pitched and rose again, in the trough of the deep, with concussive and 

 provoking re-iteration ; this execrable change was sickening and heart- 

 lifting even to delirium. 



What a sudden metamorphosis in posture of body, but above 

 all in expression of countenance does the company exhibit! Here 

 are features, erst cheerful and blooming, now struck with the pallid 

 torpor of the grave : here, is the expression of agony and anxiety 

 indiscribable ; there, a corpse like indifference to every thing around, 



