it alone."--"Well, I won't come, then," answered his yoke-fellow,
"for I am at present more agreeably employed."--"Oho! you are. I
believe so too," cried the commodore, making wry faces and mimicking
the action of dram-drinking. Then, addressing himself to Hatchway,
"Prithee, Jack," said he, "go and try thy skill on that stubborn
hulk: if anybody can bring her about, I know you wool."

The lieutenant accordingly, taking his station at the door, conveyed
his persuasion in these words: "What, won't you turn out and hail
little Perry? It will do your heart good to see such a handsome
young dog; I'm sure he is the very moral of you, and as like as if
he had been spit out of your own mouth, as the saying is: do show
a little respect for your kinsman, can't you?" To this remonstrance
she replied, in a mild tone of voice, "Dear Mr. Hatchway, you are
always teasing one in such a manner: sure I am, nobody can tax
me with unkindness, or want of natural affection." So saying, she
opened the door, and, advancing to the hall where her nephew stood,
received him very graciously and observed that he was the very
image of her papa.

In the afternoon he was conducted by the commodore to the house of
his parents; and, strange to tell, no sooner was he presented to
his mother, than her countenance changed, she eyed him with tokens
of affliction and surprise, and, bursting into tears, exclaimed her
child was dead, and this was no other than an impostor whom they
had brought to defraud her sorrow. Trunnion was confounded at this
unaccountable passion, which had no other foundation than caprice
and whim; and Gamaliel himself was so disconcerted and unsettled
in his own belief, which began to waver, that he knew not how
to behave towards the boy, whom his godfather immediately carried