privateersman

Captain William Wanton, of Portsmouth, took out a commission as privateersman and brought in several valuable prizes.

The privateersman sprang into the boat, shoved it off, and pulled in the direction from which the appeal came.

"I hope he did not do that," said the privateersman, with a good deal more energy than the other thought the occasion warranted.

But the privateersman suddenly fell upon him, and both of them went down.

"An excellent simile, Captain Passford, and I could not have invented a better myself," returned the privateersman.