When Jones heard this, he said: "Well, he deserved it; and if I have the good fortune to fall in with him again, I will make him a lord."
I. Găl´lant: brave. Spīked: made the guns useless by stopping the vent or touchhole with a nail or spike.
II. Sē̍ rā´ pĭs. Bōard: to go on deck of. Knīght: a man who receives a rank which entitles him to be called Sir, as "Sir Walter Scott."
In the lexicon of youth, which fate reserves
For a bright manhood, there's no such word as fail.
BULWER
Hiawatha's Sailing
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow