. The choice works of Thomas Hood, in prose and verse. The Arch-Enemy. REFLECTIONS ON WATER. 501 the sequestered harbour of Newhaven, thou wilt find occurring thesurname of Hood ; a name associated by friends, marine and me-chanic, with a contrivance for expelling the old enemy, w^ter, by anovel construction of shi])s pumps. Stanchest of my sect—the Adams-Ale-Shunners—wert thou, oldSamuel Spiller ! in the musier-roU characterised an Able Seaman, butmo-t notable for a landsmans aversion to unmitigated vvatei, h rdor soft—fresh or salt! A petty ofliccr wert thou in that armed band. Running Spiri
. The choice works of Thomas Hood, in prose and verse. The Arch-Enemy. REFLECTIONS ON WATER. 501 the sequestered harbour of Newhaven, thou wilt find occurring thesurname of Hood ; a name associated by friends, marine and me-chanic, with a contrivance for expelling the old enemy, w^ter, by anovel construction of shi])s pumps. Stanchest of my sect—the Adams-Ale-Shunners—wert thou, oldSamuel Spiller ! in the musier-roU characterised an Able Seaman, butmo-t notable for a landsmans aversion to unmitigated vvatei, h rdor soft—fresh or salt! A petty ofliccr wert thou in that armed band. Running Spirits. versus contraband, the Coast Blockade, by some miscalled the Pre-ventive Service, if service it be to prevent the influx of wholesomespirits. To do the smuiigler bare justice, no seaman, Nelson-bred,payeth greater reverence or obedience to that signal sentence,—?England expects every man to do his duty! than he. Thine,Spiller, was done to the uttermost. Spirits, leg^l or illegal, in tub orflask or pewter measure, didst thou inexorably seize, and gauger-liketry the depth thereof,—thy Royal Master, His Majesty, at the latterend of the seizures, faring no better than thy own-begotten sea-urchin, of whom, one day, remarking —he took after his father,the voung would-be Trinculo reiorted, Father never leaveth none totake. There were strange rumours afloat and ashore. Samuel !of thy unprofitable vi-ilance. Many an illicit Chi/d—, a smallkg—hath been laid at thy door. Thou hadst a becoming resrectfor thy comradrs, as brave men and true, who could stand fir
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