self, mun-you shall see the deck presently-he will be all over dew."

"The Lord caused the dew to fall all around, but it came not upon the fleece," * said the other. "Hear me, Davy Jenkins! I know thee; thou art a castaway -thou hast a prophet in thy vessel."""Tis a Jonah, then; and I wish the Fanny was so much lighter as if he was in the whale's belly," laughingly replied Jenkins. "We were all quiet and peace

able enough till you came aboard, praying and preaching, and seeing devils and angels, and be hanged to you." "Blas

pheme not," rejoined the fanatic; "if I were as the sons of Belial, who return evil for evil, verily I should hold my peace; but now give I unto thee a sign -Go not to Bristol; thou and thy vessel are known, and thou wilt be thrown into prison, from whence thou shalt not be * Vide Judges, vi. 40.

cast out until thou hast paid the uttermost farthing." "What!" cried Jenkins, "when I shall bring back a colonel in their army-and when they did let Rees ap Jones, of the Mumbles ship, come away safe? tut, mun." "How!" exclaimed the fanatic, "is that young reviler among the captains of the Philistines? Hear me, Jenkins, thou art called upon for a great work. Deliver him bound into the hands of the rulers of my people, saith the Lord, so shalt thou find favour in their eyes-thou and thy family-and thou shalt prosperand thy reward shall be great.' "I understand you well enough," replied Jenkins, descending half way down the companion ladder, so as to bring his head on a level with that of the last speaker, and with folded arms leaning upon the deck, in a musing attitude, for about a minute, in silence; in a low voice he then

continued; "Phoo-its a thing that was not possible, even indeed if-to be sure if-but, indeed there was some packs and bales to go to the merchants at Bristow, who have always used to freight the Fanny, and so indeed to goodness I shall not talk any longer;" and elevating his head, appeared to be retiring." Remember," whispered the fanatic in his ear," that when Alderman Yeomans, and Master Bouchier, were hung in Bristol, by that chosen instrument Colonel Fiennes, how the devilish cavaliers raged, and swore in their wrath that their deaths should be revenged-The tender mercies of the wicked are cruel; then, what canst thou expect, who art known to have conveyed the implements of war for their destruction?"

This address put the Captain into a tremor which was observed with ma

lignant delight by the fanatic, who, stretching his long lean arm over the capstan, and drawing himself half across, continued; "Thinkest thou that if thou wert doing the Lord's work he would forsake thee thus?-Awake to a sense of thy duty, and in three days thou shalt receive thy reward at Gloucester." "But the merchandize my freight," replied Jenkins; "no, indeed, let them hang me-but-but, it shall never be said that Davy Jenkins, captain and owner of the Bristow and Swansea trader, ran away with his freight, and stole goods trusted to his care by the merchants who took him by the hand when he was poor -so, look you, Bristow is the port, live or die."

"What kind of goods and mammon art thou entrusted with?" inquired the other." It is mostly the works of my

country women - flannels, and coarse cloths, and hose; and there is some butter, you see."

"And thou wouldest bear these to the enemies of the people! Thy spirit faileth thee, O man! and thou thinkest as a child, even in the affairs of this world. Knowest thou not that the chosen of the Lord, whom he hath appointed to do this great work which is now in hand, have need of the things thou namest? and wottest thou not that he hath given into their hands the silver and the gold, the vessels of gold and the vessels of silver?"

"What is all that to me?" replied Jenkins; "the goods and merchandize are not mine to sell, look you: and, besides, how could I ever show my face in Swansea again? and would not the Fanny be no better than a pirate?"

"Thou art in utter darkness," said the fanatic; " seeing thou art entrusted by