ite enough to fit up a house.

Jack is my favourite of all the loose fish I have known, and if ever I
take up my place again--alas!--I shall have him with me, and make him
live ashore.

SWIFT & Co., Printers, 2, Newton Street, High Holborn, W.C.

Transcriber's note

The following typos have been corrected in the text:

Page Problem Correction

10 to a a queer to a queer
14 found the found that the
16 the nthe then the
21 had manage had managed
30 everybody, The everybody. The
74 How is this? "How is this?
79 laulo Rye. laulo Rye."
79 Rye. Rye.)
95 We must have "We must have
95 enagagement engagement
125 No one better "No one better
129 you are touched you are touched.
130 convervation conversation
137 fraced traced
141 youself yourself
143 six at night six at night.
143 all the day all the day.
162 Ned Donnelly's? Ned Donnelly's.
200 ower power
201 Do you want "Do you want
208 bargue barque

The following words with and without hyphenation were left as in the text:

arm-pits armpits
mast-head masthead

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