[78] Bagatelle.
[79] Je ne sais quoi.
[80] Soirée.
[81] This implied compliment to our vessels and seamen was really made by a British sailor, in a similar conversation with an American gentleman.
[82] Belay—a sea-term, signifying to secure or make fast a rope.
[83] Fact.
[84] Query? Which epithet is the most elegant, flap or slap? We rather think "the flaps have it."
[85] Fact.
[86] Fact.