THE OLD COMMODORE. BY THE AUTHOR OF "RATTLIN THE REEFER," &c. oward (es) Hou "N'ESTROQUE!" IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. I. LONDON: RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STREET. 1837 PUBLIC French 144 Coup THE OLD COMMODORE. CHAPTER I. "For the bullets and the gout Have so knocked his hull about, That he'll never more be fit for sea." OLD SONG. 66 ZOUNDS! " "You have begun your history with an oath!" ejaculates the purist. "You have begun it with a vulgarism," lisps the young gentleman, who has a horror of being thought vulgar. And, alas! I myself confess that I have commenced it with a plagiarism. I am sorry, VOL. I. B |