anto," and the colors kept flying from eight o'clock
in the morning till sunset; according to the regulations of the naval
service, and were also hoisted the next day.

It was a leading article in Mary's consent to the marriage, that her
husband should give up going to sea, which he and her father contended
did not include or contemplate his probably making a coasting "trip," if
business required, and Mary at last consented to admit the exception.
The bridge at the Devil's Gap was substantially repaired, and was often
visited by Mary and her husband; and Jade's Walk was long celebrated as
a favorite evening stroll when the weather permitted, not only with
young lovers, but even with "old married fudges," as young ladies who
are husband-hunting very politely call them.

[Footnote 2: Yoho, an animal, probably the ourang-outang, in whose
existence sailors are firm believers, and of whose courage,
intelligence, cunning, malicious and mischievous disposition, they tell
wonderful stories. The word seems to be a corruption of Dean Swift's
"Yahoo."]

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OLD CUFF.

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OLD CUFF.

"Qualia multa mari nautae patiuntur in alto!"

VIRGIL.

What Yankee man-of-war's-man is there, ashore or afloat, who has "helped
Uncle Sam," any time between the beginning of the "long embargo," and
the year 1827, who does not know or has not heard of Old Cuff? His real
patronymic appellation is nobody's business;--perhaps it would puzzle
himself to give any account of it: nor is it worth while to inquire how
the name of Cuff, generally bestowed upon the woolly-headed and
flat-nosed descendants of Ham, should be given to a white man; and as
for the _praenomen_, as the Romans would call it, of "old," it is well
known to all my short-jacketed readers, that it seldom has, in "sea
dic." or nautical language, any reference to antiquity on the part of
the bearer thereof; but is merely a familiar or affectionate
distinction; as the commander of a merchantman, although perhaps under
twenty years of age, is invariably called the "old man," by all hands on
board.

Old Cuff, when I knew him, was just turned of forty, and was, of course,
of venerable standing; as it is I presume, well known to every body that
a sailor'