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CUTTER v. POWELL. (II. Sin. L. C. Temp. 1795.) HP WAS in Jamaica's bay The " Governor Parry " lay, A good ship and well found. Now Captain Powell, he Commanded her, and she For Liverpool was bound.

Said Powell : " I will pay, Well, thirty guineas, say (Thirty-one pounds, ten, naught); That is, provided you As mate shall duty do Until we're safe in port."

Then Cutter said, said he : "Your note promissoree I do accept, and so Let 's hoist the flowing sail, And whistle for a gale For Merry England, ho!"

Alas! old England's shore Should Cutter ne'er see more, — He sailed but to his death; And deep beneath the wave He found a sailor's grave (September twentieth).

The voyage was not o'er Till some nine days or more JDctoher's course had run. The widow said : " My late Spouse was your second mate, — Alas! my only one.