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. ard: to go on deck of. Kght: 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