since." "One thing's sartain," observed Coble, "that a dog's not an officer." "No," replied Dick Short. "He's not on the ship's books, so I can't see how it can be mutiny." evening after the punishment of Smallbones. | Jemmy looked up from to his wife's face, her The major part of the crew attended? all but inharmonious features all in harmony, and the Corporal Van Spitter, who, on these points, thus did she appear what is very advantageous was known to split with the crew, and his six in the married state-perfection to her husmarines, who formed the corporal's tail, at band, without sufficient charms in the eyes of which they were always to be found. The others to induce them to seduce her from her principal personage was not the most eloquent liege lord. Moreover, let it be recollected, speaker, for it was Dick Short, who was sup- that what Jemmy wanted was height, and he ported by Obadiah Coble, Yack Jansen, and had gained, what he required in his wife, if another personage, whom we must introduce, not in his own person; his wife was passionthe boatswain or boatswain's mate of the cut- ately fond of him and very jealous, which ter, for although he received the title of the was not to be wondered at, for, as she said, former, he only received the pay of the latter."there never was such a husband before or This person's real name was James Salisbury, but for reasons which will be explained he We must now return to the conference, obwas invariably addressed or spoken of as serving that all these parties were sitting Jemmy Ducks. He was indeed a very sin- down on the deck, and that Jemmy Ducks had gular variety of human discrepancy as to his fiddle in his hand, holding it with the body form: he was handsome in face, with a man- downwards like a bass viol, for he always ly countenance, fierce whiskers and long pig-played it in that way, and that he occasionally tail, which on him appeared more than usu- fingered the strings, pinching them like you ally long, as it descended to within a foot of do a guitar, so as to send the sound of it aft, the deck. His shoulders were square, chest that Mr. Vanslyperken might suppose that expanded, and, as far as half way down, to they were all met for mirth. Two or three where the legs are inserted into the human had their eyes directed aft, that the appearframe, he was a fine, well-made, handsome, ance of Corporal Van Spitter or the marines well-proportioned man. But what a falling might be immediately perceived, for although off was there for some reason, some acci- the corporal was not a figure to slide into a dent, it is supposed, in his infancy, his legs conference unperceived, it was well known had never grown in length since he was three that he was an eaves dropper. years old: they were stout as well as his body, but not more than eighteen inches from the hip to the heel: and he consequently waddled about a very ridiculous figure, for he was like a man razeed or cut down. Put him on an eminence of a couple of feet and not see his legs, and you would say at a distance, "What a fine looking sailor!" but let him get down and walk up to you, and you would find that nature had not finished what she had so well begun, and that you are exactly half mis-one of the men. taken. This maleconformation below, did not, however, affect his strength, it rather added to it, and there were but few men in the ship who would venture a wrestle with the boatswaim, who was very appropriately distinguished by the cognomen of Jemmy Ducks. Jemmy was a sensible, merry fellow, and a good seaman; you could not affront him by any jokes on his figure, for he would joke with you. He was indeed the fiddle of the ship's company, and he always played the fiddle to them when they danced, on which instrument he was no mean performer, and, moreover, accompanied his voice with his instrument when he sang to them after they were tired of dancing. We shall only observe, that Jemmy was a married man, and he had selected one of the tallest of the other sex of her beauty the less that is said the better-Jemmy did not look to that, or perhaps at such a height, her face did not appear so plain to him as it did to those who were more on a level with it. The effect of perspective is well known, and even children now have as playthings castles, &c. laid down on card, which, when looked at in a proper direction, appear just as correct as they do preposterous when lying flat before them. Now it happened that from the level that "No," rejoined Short. "Mein Got-he is not a tog, he is de tyfel," observed Jansen. "Who knows how he came into the cutter?" "There's a queer story about that," said Tum tum, tumty tum-said the fiddle of Jemmy Ducks, as if it took part in the conference. "That poor boy will be killed if things go on this way; the skipper will never be content till he has driven his soul out of his bodypoor creature? only look at him as he lies in his hammock." "I never seed a Christian such an object," said one of the sailors. "If the dog aint killed, Bones will be, that's sartin," observed Coble," and I don't see why the preference should be given to a human individual, although the dog is the skipper's dog-now then, what d'ye say, my lads?" Tum tum, tum tum, tumty tumty tum, replied the fiddle. "Let's hang him at once." 66 Jansen took out his snickerree, looked at Short, and made a motion with the knife as if passing it across the dog's throat. "No," replied Short. "Let's launch him overboard at night," said one of the men. "But how is one to get the brute out of the cabin?" said Coble; "if its done at all it must be done by day." Short nodded his head. or not." 66 "A tog is a tog," observed Jansen. 66 "I will give him a launch the first opportu- minds to shove off again, but then I was adrift nity, "observed Jemmy Ducks," only-continu- and so I thought better of it. It won't do to ed he in a measured and lower tone)-I should be nice in peace times you know, my lads, first like to know whether he really is a dog when all the big ships are rotting in Southampton and Cinque Port muds. Well, then, what he told me I recollect well-ay, every word of it-as if he had whispered it into my ear but this minute. It was a blustering night, with a dirty southwester, and the chafing of the harbor waves was thrown up in foams, which the winds swept up the street, they chasing one another as if they were boys at play. It was about two bells in the middle watch, and after our fifth glass, that Joe Geary said as this: "Yes," replied one of the forecastle men, we all know a dog is a dog, but the question is-is this dog a dog?" Here there was a pause, which Jemmy Ducks filled up by again touching the strings of his fiddle. The fact was, that, although, every one of the sailors wished that the dog was overboard, there was not one who wished to commit the deed, not on account of the fear of its being "It was one dark winter's night when we discovered who was the party by Mr. Van- were off the Texel, blowing terribly, with the slyperken, but because there was a great deal coast under our lee, clawing off under storm of superstition among them. It was consider- canvass, and fighting with the elements for ed unlucky to throw any dog or animal over- every inch of ground, a hand in the chains, for board, but the strange stories told about the we had nothing but the lead to trust to, and way in which Snarleyyow first made his ap- the vessel so flogged by the waves, that he pearance in the vessel, added to the peculiar was lashed to the rigging, that he might not diabolical temper of the animal, had often be washed away; all of a sudden the wind been the theme of midnight conversation, and came with a blast loud enough for the last many of them were convinced that it was an trump, and the waves roared till they were imp of Satan lent to Vanslyperken, and hoarser than ever; away went the vessel's that, to injure or to attempt to destroy it mast, although there was no more canvass on would infallibly be followed up with terrible it than a jib pocket-handkerchief, and the craft consequences to the party, if not to the vessel rolled and tossed in the deep troughs for all and all the crew. Even Short, Coble, and the world like a wicked man dying in desJansen, who were the boldest and leading pair; and then she was a wreck, with nothing men, although when their sympathies were to help us but God Almighty, fast borne down roused by the sufferings of poor Smallbones upon the sands, which the waters had disthey were anxious to revenge him, had their turbed, and were dashing about until they own misgivings, and, on consideration, did themselves were weary of the load and all not like to have any thing to do with the bu- the seamen cried unto the Lord, as well they siness. But each of them kept their reflec-might. tions to themselves, for, if they could not combat, they were too proud to acknowledge them. The reader will observe that all their plans were immediately put an end to until this important question, and not a little difficult one, was decided-Was the dog a dog? "Now, they say, that he did not cry as they did,like men and Christians, to Him who made them, and the waters which surrounded and threatened them; for Death was then in all his glory, and the foaming crests of the waves were as plumes of feathers to his skeleton head beneath them; but he cried like a child Now, although the story had often been-and swore terribly as well as cried-talktold, yet, as the crew of the cutter had been ing about his money, his dear money, and not paid off since the animal had been brought caring about his more precious soul. on board, there was no man in the ship who could positively detail, from his own know-wave pushing her with giant force nearer and ledge, the facts connected with his first appearance-there was only tradition, and, to solve this question, to tradition they were obliged to repair. "Now, Bill Spurey," said Coble, "you know more about this matter than any one, so just spin us the yarn, and then we shall be able to talk the matter over soberly." "Well," replied Bill Spurey, "you shall have it just as I got it word for word, as near as I can recollect. You know I wasn't in the craft when the thing came on board, but Joe Geary was, and it was one night when we were boozing over a stiff glass at the new shop there, the Orange Boven, as they call it, at the Pint at Portsmouth-and so you see, falling in with him, I wished to learn something about my new skipper, and what sort of a chap I should have to deal with; when I learnt all about him, I'd half a dozen "And the cutter was borne down, every nearer to destruction, when the man at the chains shrieked out-Mark three, and the Lord have mercy on our souls!' and all the crew, when they heard this, cried out- Lord, save us, or we perish.' But still they thought that their time was come, for the breaking waves wore under their lee, and the yellow waters told them that, in a few minutes, the vessel, and all who were on board, would be shivered in fragments; and some wept and some prayed as they clung to the bulwarks of the unguided vessel, and others in a few minutes thought over their whole life, and waited for death in silence. But he, he did all; he cried, aad he prayed, and he swore, and he was silent, and at last he became furious and frantic; and when the men said again and again, The Lord save us!' he roared out at last, Will the devil help us, for In a moment, before these first words were out of THE SISTER TO HER BROTHER. BY MRS. ABDY. his mouth, there was a flash of lightning, that [ "And the dog looked up and gave one deep bark, and as soon as he had barked the wind appeared to lull-he barked again twice, and there was a dead calm-he barked again thrice, and the seas went down-and he patted the dog on the head, and the animal then bayed loud for a minute or two, and then, to the astonishment and fear of all, instead of the vessel being within a cable's length of the Texel sands in a heavy gale, and without hope, the Foreland lights were but two miles on our beam with a clear sky and smooth water." The seamen finished his legend, and there was a dead silence for a minute or two, bro ken first by Jansen, who, in a low voice, said, "Then te tog is not a tog." "No," replied Coble, an imp sent by the devil to his follower in distress." 66 Yes," said Short. "Well, but," said Jemmy Ducks, who for some time had left off touching the strings of his fiddle, "it would be the work of a good Christian to kill the brute." 66 It's not a mortal animal, Jemmy." "True, I forgot that." "Gifen by de tyfel," observed Jansen. "Ay, and christened by him too," continued Coble. "Who ever heard any Christian brute with such a damnable name?" 66 66 Well, what's to be done?" Why," replied Jemmy Ducks, "at all events, imp o' Satan or not, that 'ere Small I stood an infant by thy side, Perchance these words thou may'st not brook Yet I was early taught to dwell The principles of wrong and right. Can ties like these, his sanction win? Might better with my parents suit, Thou deem'st our father harsh and stern, bones fought him to-day with his own weap-Thou would'st not think our mother dear, ons." "And beat him too," said Coble. "Yes," said Short. "Now, it's my opinion, that Smallbones ar'n't afraid of him," continued Jemmy Ducks," and devil or no devil, he'll kill him if he can." "He's the proper person to do it," replied Coble; "the more so, as you may say, that he's his natural enemy." "Yes, mein Got, de poy is the man,” said Jansen. "We'll put him to it, at all events, as soon as he is out of his hammock," rejoined Jemmy Ducks. A little more conversation took place, and then it was carried unanimously that Smallbones should destroy the animal, if it was possible to destroy it. The only party who was not consulted was Smallbones himself, who lay fast asleep in his hammock. The consultation then broke up, and they all went below. (To be continued.) Beheld thee with less tender care, Could'st thou the fervent blessings hear, Breathed for thy sake by her in prayer. And I-my youthful glee has fled, A change has come my spirit o'er, Now seem to dread thy presence more; Even to girlhood's artless ken, But would'st thou from their counsels flee, My heart would welcome thy return! Yet when he homeward bent his way, Such feast, I know thy parents dear With lavish hand would spread for thee, Hopes, brother, both of mortal birth, Thou hast a pitying God in heaven: And should'st thou come to mercy's gate, None would forbid thy entrance in. Hath chosen, to confound the wise; springs which keep his watch a-going. So, I believe, the best plan to teach men how to regulate their diet and habits of life, so as to make their health keep true time, is to make them acquainted with the mechanism of their internal selves-showing them the uses of the several organs and fluids which keep LIFE a-going. But before we descend to particulars, it will be as well to take a rapid and brief, but general, survey of the several parts which go to the composition of the animal, man. I say, the animal, because here we have nothing whatever to do with the higher attributes of his nature-attributes which have no connection with physical structure, and the phenomena of which are wholly independent of all physical laws we are here wholly and solely concerned simply with the physical animal. The method which I shall adopt in order to exhibit some of the principal systems of which the whole scheme of man is made up, and to show the relation which exists between them, and the dependance of one upon another, may be considered as fanciful. Perhaps it is so. But it struck me as one well calculated to render what I wish to say, easily comprehensible; and that circumstance alone is a high recommendation. For I am not ambitious of fine writing, either as it regards accurate arrangement, philosophical speculation, or learned and elegant diction-I am only anxious to be understood. If man had been the work of any being less than Omniscient, the several single ideas, composing the one complex idea of man, must have occurred in succession; and the first must have been the idea of his figure. The first idea could only have been, as I shall prove presently, merely that an image or statue of the particular form and appearance which man presents. I am, of course, for the present, supposing man to have been the first animal produced, and that his artificer was some being of inferior wisdom to that of Him who is, in truth, his real Author. Having conceived the idea of a particular figure, and determined to construct one, the next point to be settled, would be the kind of materials of which to fashion it. Having chosen bone, and shaped his image according to his preconceived idea, the first of the series of single ideas forming the one complex idea of man would be realized; and a solid statue of bone would be the result-a mere framework of the human form. In reply to your letter, wherein you complain that you cannot gather any clear notion of the nature of your malady, because you cannot attach, in your own mind, any distinct idea to the terms which your medical attendants are obliged to use in their endeavors to explain it to you, I am about to give you, in a series of letters, a plain and familiar description of the mechanism of your internal man; together with a brief history of those internal motions and actions which constitute animal life, and any disturbance in the harmony of which constitute disease. Thus, I think, I shall easily enable you to surmount the difficulty of which you complain. There is another benefit which I in- Contemplating the work of his hands, the tend should result from these letters. They desire of endowing it with powers of locowill, I hope, enable you to understand what motion might then occur to him. In order diet is most proper for man both in sickness to accomplish this, the artificer would find and in health; and what are the habits of life it necessary first to divide the statue into which are most likely to conduce to a sound parts, (reuniting these parts by means of mind and a sound body. For, if I were re-joints,) and then to contrive a number of quested to teach a man how to regulate his motive instruments, which being attached to watch so as to make it keep true time, I should the jointed statue, might enable it to move; think the best way to teach him to do this, as the mechanic who wishes to move a heavy would be to make him acquainted with the internal mechanism of a watch-showing him the uses of the several wheels and weight must first construct his instruments of motion, such as wheels, pulleys, levers, &c. Having effected this contrivance, the second idea of the series would be realized-the idea | hop into a river and vanish beneath the waof the muscular system. ters. But when he had contrived and attached Having fished him up from the stream, or his muscles, he would find that the particu-mended his broken head, it would now be lar shape and general appearance which he tolerably clear to him that his image was not had predetermined his work should bear was quite perfect. He would see that it was abquite destroyed; and that these same mus- solutely necessary to the safety of his image cles attached to the outside of the statue were that it should know when a tree stood in its a terrible disfigurement to its external beauty way, in order that it might avoid it. This and symmetry. To remedy this evil it would would suggest the idea of the organs of the be necessary to scoop and pare down and senses; being the fifth idea, and completing hollow out different parts of the image, and that series of which the complex one, reprethen fill up these hollows, and restore those sented by the words “animal man," is comparts to their original size which had been posed. By the organs of the senses his obpared down, with his muscles; so as again to ject would be to establish a certain relation bring his image to its former shape and di- between his image and the rest of the world mensions. But still he would find, notwith--to enable it to acquire ideas (by means of standing his muscles, that his statue could the experiences of these senses) of whatever not yet move, any more than a steam-engine was likely to inflict injury, or afford pleacan move, merely because it has wheels, unless sure; that it might seek the one and avoid there be some power to set those wheels in the other. motion. Hence would arise the third idea of the series-that of a brain and nerves, whose office it is to afford motive power to the muscles which are of themselves only motive instruments. This motive power is to the muscles—which are, in fact, only so many levers -what the mechanic's hand is to the pulleys, wheels, &c.: it sets them in motion, and keeps them moving. And here again he would be obliged to hollow out another portion of the bone-the head-to make room for the brain, so as that its attachment might not disfigure the symmetry of his image. The nerves, which arise from the brain, like fibres from a bulbous root, and whose duty it is to carry the motive power from the brain to the muscles, he would of course distribute and conceal among the numberless little bundles of fibres, of which the muscles are composed. In considering what senses were necessary, he would find that five were required. Having scooped away another portion of what little of the bony statue yet remained, and so introduced the eye and ear; and having found proper places for the addition of the organs of taste and smell; and thus having disposed of four out of the five senses required, he might be supposed to pause, having suddenly observed that there was yet an imperfection which had escaped his notice; for he would see that the external surface of his image was very unequal from the many scoopings and hollowings which it had undergone that though these had been filled up by muscles, &c. they did not fit with sufficient accuracy to make all level-that some parts were soft and others hard-that some were of one color and some another-whereas the image, according to his first conceived Again contemplating his production, it idea of it, should have been, as to its exterwould occur to him that the materials of nal appearance, everywhere smooth, homowhich he had found it necessary to construct geneous, and soft to the touch. How was this it were liable to decomposition and decay-imperfection to be rectified? Having still putrefaction. To surmount this new diffi- the fifth sense to add, he resolved, it may be culty, it would be incumbent upon him to contrive a conservative system—and hence he would arrive at the fourth idea-that of a system of nutrition. As the organs of this system are large and numerous, he would be compelled to hollow out the whole body of the statue in order to make room for them, and put them out of sight, leaving no more of the solid image than just sufficient to support and give attachment to the several new contrivances which, in improving upon his original idea he had found it necessary to add. supposed, to make use of this sense to restore the image to its originally predetermined external appearance of homogeneous beauty. Instead, therefore, of making the sense of touch reside in a single organ, he spread it out all over the surface of a most delicate and beautiful membrane (the skin), and wrapping the image in it, and seeing that it fitted it with perfect accuracy, he would rejoice to find that he had killed two birds with one stone-that he had given his image the desired appearance-and, at the same time, found the means of attaching the fifth sense Once more contemplating his work, he without any more hollowing and scooping. would now be delighted to see his new, ani- But these organs of sense or feeling being mated, and improved statue, moving about of themselves only instruments of feeling, as from place to place without assistance. His the muscles of themselves are only instrusatisfaction, however, would be somewhat dis-ments of motion, could be of no use unless turbed by observing the grotesque, awkward, they were supplied by some other organ with and uncertain manner in which it proceeded, the power of feeling, i. e. the ability to feel. or rather zigzagged; and very soon all his But he could find no room for any more orjoy would be suddenly turned into consternation, by beholding his unhappy image, all at once, break its head against a post, or gans, nor were more necessary, for he had only to take care that certain of the nerves arising from the brain should be distributed |