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but jes' good plain reg'lar inferma- 

 sion." 



" Oh, Seth 's a great boy, Captain," 

 replied Bradley ; he was born with a shot- 

 gun in his hands, you might say. His 

 father taught him chivalrous sportsman- 

 ship in his childhood, and all his ancestors 

 were genuine sportsmen the real kind, 

 you know. Seth's father used to say, 

 'The sportsman, like the poet, is born, not 

 made/ and I guess it 's true. The old 

 man an Englishman of the old school, 

 the Johnny Bull sort, not of the con- 

 ceited assinine class our young dudes 

 so love to ape, but the genuine English 

 gentleman, him of the glowing face, 

 strong arm, honest heart, and brave spirit 

 was a great character, like his son." 



1 'Wai, I don' know 'bout th' father," 

 responded the bayman, but his boy be a 

 ten-poun' surf runner ef ever there be 

 one. I wish I was his father, I wish my 

 Adam 'd be like Mr. Fieldin' w'en he 's 

 growed up, but thet could n't heppen; 



