----_Trim_ is busy in turning an old pair of jackboots into a couple of mortars, to be employed in the siege of _Messina_ next summer--and is this instant boring the touch-holes with the point of a hot poker. 
Trim is busy turning an old pair of jackboots into a couple of mortars, to be employed in the siege of Messina next summer - and is this instant boring the touch-holes with a hot poker.
