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would be better applied to your friend ; and as 6 birds 

 of a feather y — you know the adage — you can also 

 apply the natural inference to yourself. It may be 

 well for you to remember that you are running a 

 great risk of undergoing the same treatment as your 

 friend ; go and join him and console him. " Mr. 

 Smyth began to bluster even worse than before, and 

 a crowd having gathered, amongst them the Captain 

 of the Tasmania, who at once desired to know T what 

 it was all about. As one of my party was about to 

 explain, the husband of the married lady to whom I 

 have alluded, told the captain the whole story. Mr. 

 Smyth frequently tried to interfere, but the captain, 

 in that quiet way which captains of ships have, said 

 to him ' ■ You have nothing to say to this. I will deal 

 with it," and turning to us said, 6i Gentlemen, 1 

 thank you in the name of the insulted lady ; I thank 

 you in the name of all my lady passengers ; I thank 

 you in the name of my owners ; and I also thank 

 you in my own name ; " and continuing said with a 

 smile " should anything of the sort occur again, 

 which is not, I think, likely, you may leave it to me 

 to settle." We bowed our acknowledgement and 

 there the matter apparently ended ; except that 

 during the remainder of the voyage we were looked 

 upon at times with admiration and at other times 

 with fear, or perhaps a little mixture of both. I 

 don't think however, that we in any way suffered 

 by it. 



The next day Mr. Lovesy called me to sit beside 

 him and having complimented us said, 66 You and 



