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THE NAVAL OFFICER.
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the subject, asked if he had any thing he could give us to drink, for the weather was very warm.

"No, I ha'n't," he replied, peevishly; "and if I had ——"

"Come, come, my good fellow," said I, "you forget you are a prize; civility is a cheap article, and may bring you a quick return."

"That's true," said Jonathan, who was touched on the nicest point—self; " that's true, you are only a doing your duty. Here, boy, fetch up that ere demi John of Madeira, and for aught I know, the young officer might like a drop o long cork; bring us some tumblers, and one o' they claret bottles out o° the starboard after locker."

The boy obeyed—and the articles quickly appeared, While this dialogue was going on, the frigate was in chace, firing guns, and bringing-to the different vessels as she passed them, dropping a boat on board of one, and