THE NAVAL OFFICER.
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CHAPTER IV.
Ot once the winds arise,
The thunders roll, the forky lightning flies:
In vain the master issues out commands,
In vain the trembling sailors ply their hands:
The tempest unforeseen prevents their care,
And from the first, they labour in despair.
Dryden's Fables.
Halifax is a charming, hospitable place: its name is asociated with so many pleasing recollections, that it never fails to extort another glass from the bottle which, having been gagged, was going to pass the night in the cellaret. But only say " Halifax!" and it is like " Open sesame!"—out flies the cork, and down goes a bumper to the " health of all good lasses!"
