394 NIMROD OF THE SEA; OB, 



JUBT i;a2«ded. 



rude sailor as the gentlewoman ministered to bis wants, and, 

 after he had done eating, with tears in her good, motherly 

 eyes, she inquired whether we had seen the ship in which 

 her boy was growing to be such a poor man as she saw be- 

 fore her. 



Owing to difficulties in settling the voyage, some three 



