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the French Revolution, and, wisely waiting foe

the ruins, built a throne upon. them. Before
William Pitt could become great, he had to

persuade England that she had a deadly enemy,

with whom it was wrong to keep faith,, Julius
Csesar found the Homan state disturbed by fac­

tions, and he mounted to imperial power by en­

couraging these dissensions.

What Caesar was among men, Jack was among
dogs— the greatest of the great. The like of: him

was never seen before, and probably never will

be again.

He was called Jack, for short. His right name
was Oosisoakj but that was difficult to pronounce,

and it became Jack. It might have been any­

thing else as well as Jack, so far as that appears.
Everybody knows that sailors have whims, one

of which is to give nicknames. They nickname

everything. Thus the ocean is called a “ herring
pond/’ and to he drowned or buried in the sea is

to go to “Davy Jones’s locker.1’ Any kind of in­

toxicating spirits is <fgrogj” to take a glass of
grog is to "splice the main-braee.” A sailor is an