12 AN AMERICAN FARMER IN ENGLAND. 



die, so as the next most pacifying amusement, ordered the 

 cook to give them supper. They took to this kindly, and 

 after using it up went to playing monkey shines, and with 

 singing, dancing, and shouting kept themselves in good 

 humour until late in the evening, when they, one by one, 

 dropped off, and turned in. The next morning they were all 

 drunk and sulky, and contented themselves with refusing tc 

 come on deck when ordered. 



When the captain came on board and learned the state 

 of things, he took a hatchet, and with the officers and 

 carpenter jumped into the forecastle, and with a general 

 knocking down and kicking out, got them all on deck. He 

 then broke open their chests and took from them six jugs of 

 grog which they had concealed, and threw them overboard. 

 As thejr floated astern, a Whitehall boatman picked them 

 up, and after securing the last, took a drink and loudly 

 wished us good luck. 



Two or three of the most violent were sent on shore (not 

 punished, but so rewarded), and their places supplied by 

 others. The rest looked a little sour, and contrived to meet 

 with a good many accidents as long as the shore boats kept 

 about us ; but when we were fairly getting clear of the land, 

 and the wind hauled a bit more aft, and the passengers began 

 to wish she would stop for just one moment, and there came 

 a whirr-rushing noise from under the bows the hearty yo- 

 ho heave-o-hoii with which they roused out the stu n-sails 

 was such as nobody the least bit sulky could have begun to 

 have found voice for. 



A handsome Napoleonic performance it was of the cap 

 tain s : the more need that I should say that in my mind he 

 A disgraced himself by it ; because, while we lay almost within 

 hail of the properly constituted officers of the law, and under 

 the guns of a United States fortress such dashing violence 



