We were fortunate in our weather; the sea waa quiet, and light as the breeze was the run of the line of crystals and prisma of froth over the eide was six at the least. They had killed a pig when the women were at breakfast, and I below; they had managed the matter cleanly and quietly, and I spied the carcase with Wambold busy upon it hanging in the twilight of the forecastle break just forward oE the windlass. A girl, after staring at me, came up the poop ladder. She was Susannah Corbin. I bade her good morning. " Good morning to you, air," she ex claimed. " Oi'd loike to ask, eapt'n, if ua gals of your company are to start agin at laming how to be sailors ?" "Certainly," said I, "and this very morning." "Why's Misg Perry practising the whistle ?" "Because she wants to know how to play." " Capt'n, don't let that there girl ba too much all there with you. Oi know what it is, she wanta to make out she's the fittest of ua all, the best for the deck and the best for aloft. What oi say is, don't give her all the chance ; let men the others have a bit. Give me a suit of man's clotheß, and oi'm game to lay out yon," eaid she, pointing to the niaintopsail yard arm, "soon as I've got 'em on." I told her I did not intend the girls should make any experiments aloft at present, but that I was delighted to hear her talk of the work with so much en thusiasm. I assured her I did not value Alice Parry in tho smallest degree above her and the reat of my company, and that she was learning the pipe because she loved the glitter of the silver, and hankered after the thing as a decoration* This made Susannah laugh, and she went down tbe steps, saying she and the others would be ready whenever I waa. 