VIII 

 The Dayman's Choice 



1 For each young sportsman he hath gracious mood, 

 Teaching him lessons of the bay and wood ; 

 Perfect in health and joyous in his ways, 

 He cheers with sunny speech inclement days ; 

 Hath ever kindliest word and helping hand, 

 A cheerful nature to dispel life's gloom, 

 And so his name and memory will survive 

 On earth, tho' he be resting in the tomb." 



MCLELLAN. 



)APTAIN GRIEB, sitting 



on the tiny ladder leading 

 to the cabin of his sloop, 

 with his great rubber 

 "boots quite dangling over 

 the reclining form of Doctor 

 Corbin, expressed his admiration of Seth 

 Fielding's crack shooting in the battery 

 during the morning, and conceded to 

 Doctor Bradley in a most humorous whis- 

 per, strangely louder than his ordinary 

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