POPULARITY. 213 



This, I should tell my readers, is a 

 common phrase with sailors, when speak- 

 ing of a person whom they think a little 

 lofty; but, I thought, very inapplicable 

 at that time, when used by an enlight- 

 ened disciple of Esculapius, to one 

 who had become a humble follower of 

 Jehu. 



" But where, may I ask, did you 

 know my brother ? " 



" In the < Cyane,' with Sir Thomas 

 Staines ; we were messmates in her 

 when he was a middy, and I a doctor's 

 mate and a fine noble fellow he was. 

 I should very much like to see him 

 again; he and I were always great cro- 

 nies ; everybody in the ship liked him," 

 he said, " from Tommy" as he familiarly 

 designated the Captain "down to the 

 loblolly-boy." 



He then ran on in a purely nautical 

 strain, smacking a little of the Irish ac- 



