een a little more of it!"

Newton, who had only been a spectator, immediately went out for another
supply; and on his return assisted his father in its demolition.

"Newton," said Nicholas, who for a few moments had relinquished his
task, "I've been thinking--that--I should like another slice of that
beef! and Newton, as I said before--I'll trouble you for the porter!"

VOLUME TWO, CHAPTER FIVE.

_Orlando_.
Then forbear your food a little while,
While, like a doe, I go to find my fawn,
And give it food. There is a poor old roan
Oppressed with two weak evils, age and hunger.
SHAKESPEARE.

Reader, were you ever really hungry? I do not mean the common hunger
arising from health and exercise, and which you have the means of
appeasing at the moment when it may be considered a source of pleasure
rather than of pain:--I refer to the gnawing of starvation; because if
you have not, you can form no conception of the agony of the suffering.
Fortunately, but very few of my readers can have any knowledge of it;
the general sympathy which it creates is from an ideal, not a practical
knowledge. It has been my lot during the vicissitudes of a maritime
life to have suffered hunger to extremity; and although impossible to
express the corporeal agony, yet some notion of it may be conceived from
the effect it had upon my mind. I felt that I hated the whole world,
kin or no kin; that theft was a virtue, murder excusable, and
cannibalism any thing but disgusting; from which the inference may be
safely drawn, viz, that I was devilish hungry.

I mention this, because Nicholas Forster, although he had been two days
without food, and had disposed of every article which was saleable, was
endued with so much strength of principle, as not to have thought (or if
he had thought of it, immediately to have dismissed the thought) of
vending the property found in the trunk by his son, and which had
remained so long in their possession. That few would have been so
scrupulous, I will acknowledge: whether Nicholas was over-scrupulous, is
a question I leave to be debated by those who are fond of argument. I
only state the fact.

Until the arrival of the ship brought home by Mr Berecroft, the
allotment of Newton's wages had been regularly paid to his father; but
when the owner discovered that the brig had parted company with the
convoy, and had not since been heard of, the chance of capture was
considered so great that the owne