MAY, 1891. 



XI. ADMIRAL SATANBOY AND THE " LONDON FLEA." 



ADMIRAL Satanboy was the skipper of H.M. billyboy 

 sloop which brought Sir Wilful Orson's present of 

 pancakes and ginger-beer to be consumed by the 

 honorary freemen of the borough of Grimsby and other 

 deserving Grimbarians, on the occasion of the public rejoicings 

 in connection with the borough becoming a full blown county 

 borough. The pancakes were cold and the ginger-beer was 

 hot, by reason of the ginger wherewith it was gingered ; there- 

 fore also the aforesaid honorary freemen and other deserving 

 Grimbarians who were privileged to partake thereof were also 

 fully blown, and so became duly qualified county borough 

 citizens. 



The foregoing must be regarded as a preface to Mr. Hopper's 

 nth number of his angling notes. Now it must be quite clear 

 that the skipper in charge of such a precious cargo as the above 

 must be an important personage, but if he also turned out to be 

 an angler so much the more important was he in Mr. Hopper's 

 eyes. Now the Admiral was as devout a worshipper and 

 regular an attendant at church on Sunday as he was an 

 ardent and keen angler on such days of the week as he could 

 get away from the aforesaid pancakes and ginger-beer. Mr. 

 Hopper therefore hied him to church on the Sunday morning 

 following the public rejoicings, and having listened with due 

 attention to the excellent pulpit discourse of the Rev. Mr. 

 Closeoflanding, he tackled on to the Admiral outside the sacred 

 edifice and at once mooted the desirability of a fishing 

 excursion on the following Tuesday to a lovely little trout 

 stream, over which Mr. Hopper has temporarily the proprietary 

 rights of pulling out the speckled beauties which sport therein. 

 Need it be said that a compact was concluded for the day 

 named to travel by the 9-35 a.m. train to the charming little 

 town of Louth, contingent on the Admiral obtaining a day's 

 leave of absence from his cabin boy and deck washer, which 



