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first-leaf tenant, ' Send John Murray, captain of the fore-top, aft 

 here. So aft I went ; and the skipper said, f Murray/ said he, f I am 

 going to dine with the English resident to-day, and he says I am to 

 bring you to dine with his servants ; so go and rig yourself, and be 

 ready to go in my gig with me in about an hour.' Away I went, and 

 was soon ready ; at last, the first gigs were called away, and up I 

 went on deck. e Jump into the boat,' says the skipper, ' aft in the 

 stern-sheets, and steer.' 



" You've been at Egina, haven't you, Will ? " 



" Ay, lad, two or three times," said Will. 



" Well, you know the quay ; we landed there, and went up that 

 long road that leads to the town, and at the second watering-place 

 there's a garden ; we went in there, and just at the end of it is the 

 resident's house ; when we got there, the skipper went up stairs, and 

 the servants took me into a long room on the ground-floor, where 

 there was a good dinner laid out in the English fashion roast beef, 

 plum pudding, and bottled porter. Down I sat with the servants, four 

 Greeks and three Englishmen, and made a capital dinner. In about 

 an hour I was sent for to go up stairs ; up I went, and found the 

 skipper and three or four others sitting at a table with lots of good 

 wine before them. ' Which do you like best,' said the resident I 

 forget his name ' wine or grog ?' ' Wine, Sir,' says I, ' if you please.' 

 So he poured out a large glass of wine, and told me to drink the 

 king's health ; f or perhaps,' said he, ' you'd rather drink the health of 



your friends, the pirates?' 'The pirates treated me very well, and ' 



' You'll drink their health in another glass, you mean to say ? very 

 well, off with that one you've got in your hand.' So I drank it up, 

 and then he filled it again, and said ' Now, drink to the pirates.' 

 ' And your honours, too/ said I. He then told the servant to take 

 some wine down below, and told me to go and help them to drink it. 

 At about ten o'clock at night I was called to go down to the boat with 

 the captain ; it was a fine night; and away we went. After we had 

 gone a little way I had been walking behind the skipper he called 

 me up alongside him, and began to ask me some questions about the 

 fight, how many men we had against us, and all that ; but he never 

 tried to get me to tell him anything about what happened after I was 

 taken. We went on walking and talking, not thinking of any thing 

 till we got close to the first watering-place. You know that garden 

 that you have to go through to get to it, Will ?" 



" Ay, ay ; many times I have been there to water and a nasty 

 place for watering it is ; you have to roll your casks nearly a quarter 

 of a mile." 



" Well, just as we got there, three men sprung out upon us with 

 yatighans in their hands. I had no arms at all, and the captain had 

 only his sword; however, he soon drew it, and began to lay about 

 him. I was just going to jump upon one feller, to try to get his 

 yatighan out of his hand, when I got a blow upon the knuckles of my 

 left hand. I hardly felt it at the moment ; so I pressed on, and ma- 

 naged to wrench a yatighan from the feller who was fighting with 

 the skipper ; just as I got it into my hand, I got a slash upon my 

 cheek, here don't you see the scar?" 



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