ose who read this history, the name of Zebede

ace that insisted on, and therefore possessed, all its own rights so firmly as this village did. Not less than seven stout fishing-smacks-six of them sloops, and the seventh a dandy-formed the marine power of this place, and behaved as one multiplied by seven. All the bold fishermen held their line from long-established ancestry, and stuck to the stock of their grandfathers, and their wisdom and freedom from prejudice. Strength was cond

is own business, and there was not a woman unable to wait (when her breath was quite gone) for sound reason. Solidity, self-respect, pure absence of fr

you can; be at home in good time on a Saturday; never work harder than you need; throw your fish away rather than undersell it; answer no question, but ask ano

ise, hot labor, or fervid ambition; and although they counted things by money, they did not count one another so. They never encouraged a friend to work so hard as to grow too wealthy, and if he did so, they expected him to grow more generous than he liked to be. And as

indifference. His head and legs have got into a state of firm confidence in one another, and all these declare-with the rest of the body performing as chorus gratis-that now they are come to a smaller affair, upon which they intend

he has paid for as well as made it-the biggest and smartest of all the fleet, that dandy-rigged smack, the Rosalie. He was proud of her, as he well might be, and spent most of his time in thinking of her; but even she was scarcely up to the size of his ideas. "Stiff in the

well yearned for no hot speed in his friends, or his house, or his wife, or his walk, or even his way of thinking. He had seen more harm come

s a brave young man, with great understanding of his dooties. But he goeth too fast, without clearing of his way. With a man lik

aughter of an admiral, no mean critic. And sure enough, as punctual as in a well-conducted scheme of war, and with nice f

pon either quarter, in the comfort and leisure of the new-born peace, they spread their sails with sunshine. Even the warl

elbow, patch upon breeches, or sprawl of walking toward the attentive telescope, pretty nearly who everybody of them was, and whatever el

and peace was reigning; and the proper British feeling of contempt for snivelly Frenchmen, which produces the entente cordiale, had replaced the wholesome dread of them. Not that Spr

re was joy in the greeting the land held out, and in the more versatile expression of the sea. And not beneath the contempt of one who strives to get into everything, were the creases and patches of the sails of smacks, a

Tugwell. His mighty legs were spread at ease, his shoulders solid against a cask, his breast (like an elephant's back in width, and bearing a bright blue crown tattooed) shone out of the scarlet woolsey, whose plaits were filled with the golden shower of a curly beard, untouched with gray. And his face was quite

to have his own way, so thoroughly dauntless, and such a grand beard! Ten times more like an admiral than old Flapfin or my father is, if he only knew how to hold his pipe. There is something

r lounged on the deck, if there was one. But to steal an unsuspected view at a young man very well known to her, and acknowledged (not only by his mother and himself, but also by every girl in

m of having any hope of me, because he has not happened to be born a gentleman! But he looks a thousand times more lik

ther. But at present Dan Tugwell was as tender to the core as a marrowfat dallying till its young duck should be ready; because Dan was podding into his first love. To the sym

s; but I don't see how anybody can blame me. But here comes daddy, with dear old Fl