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wards I observed old Toper very fidgety, then I saw him take 

 off his shoes, examine his feet, and with his pocket-knife 

 carefully scrape them, muttering to himself, and finally he 

 put both naked feet in the river. Finding ere long the 

 beneficial effect of this process, he brought out his pipe, 

 searched for a lucifer, and rubbing it on the leg of his 

 trousers, lit his pipe. In another instant there was a big puff 

 of smoke, and Toper was looking green dragons, and talking 

 in language more forcible than elegant, which caused me to 

 retire below. 



THE LAST OF THE CRUISING FLEETS UNDER COMMODORE H. M. LEATHES. 



"That afternoon all Coltishall was warned that if they 

 wanted to see any fun they should come down to the fleet at 

 8 p.m. and hear the proceedings of a district" court-martial. 



"After dinner the cloth was removed from the pleasure 

 wherry's cabin (we had fitted up a wherry wherein we could 

 all meet each evening to dine together), and the commodore 

 took the chair. Counsel for the prosecution was an old 

 dragoon officer ; counsel for the defence, a member of the Cape 

 Parliament ; the other members of the court were constituted 

 not according to Cocker, and the tribunal was very mixed. 

 A crowd had gathered on the bank and the time for fun 

 arrived when Toper, who was wondering at the concourse of 



