tention of our vessel when engaged on the errand
of mercy and justice that took her off her course.

In addition likewise to the thanks of the company and the underwriters,
the skipper was also presented with a handsome gold chronometer watch by
the committee of Lloyds, besides participating in the amount awarded by
the charterers of the _Saint Pierre_ for the salvage of the ship, though
in this latter apportionment it was only fair to mention that we all
shared, officers and crew alike, I for my part coming into the sudden
possession of such a tidy little sum of ready money that I felt myself a
comparative millionaire.

When talking with Garry, whom it is almost needless to say all hands
were glad to see again, the men cheering him lustily as he crossed the
gangway from the tug, he told us that though otherwise they had had a
fairly pleasant voyage after parting company with us off the Azores, the
Boissons gave him a good deal of trouble.

Madame, he said, worried his life out by "making eyes" at him when he
went below at meal-times, while on deck he was never safe for a moment
from her embarrassing attentions unless, in desperation, as he was often
forced to do, he went aloft to get out of her way.

"Faith, an' sure, that warn't the worst of it nayther," complained Garry
in his humorous way. "Though the vain, silly ould crayture bate
Banagher for flirtin'--an', indade, bates ivviry other of her sex, God
bless 'em, that I've ivver clapt eyes on yet--that quare little Frenchy
chap, her husband, he, the little sparrow, must neades git jallous, an'
makes out it's all my fault, an', belave me, a nice toime I had o' it
altogether. At last I said to him, afther havin' been more than usual
exasperated by him, `If you want to foight me, begorrah, ye can begin as
soon as you loike,' at the same toime showin' him me fists."

"_Ah, non, non, mon Dieu, non_, note yat vay!" sez he, joompin' away
from me whin he caught soight o' me fists. "I was mean ze duel and ze
rapiere."

"Not me, faith," sez I. "If it's duellin' ye want you'll have to go to
another shop, Monsieur Parleyvoo, for it ain't in my line. Allow me to
till ye too, Monsieur Boisson, that if ye dare to hint at sich a thing
ag'in whilst I'm in command of this ship, the ounly satisfaction ye'll
ivver have out of me in the rap-here way will be a rap on the h'id wid
this shtick of moine here, you recollict, joist to thry the stringth of
y'r craynium, begorrah! Fa