Snarleyyow here put both his paws upon his master’s knee.  “Well, you are sorry, my poor dog, and you shall have some breakfast;” and Mr Vanslyperken put the basin of burgoo on the floor, which the dog tumbled down his throat most rapidly.  “Nay, my dog, not so fast; you must leave some for Smallbones, he will require some breakfast before his punishment.  There, that will do;” and Mr Vanslyperken wished to remove the basin with a little of the burgoo remaining in it.  Snarleyyow growled, would have snapped at his master, but Mr Vanslyperken shoved him away with the bell mouth of his speaking-trumpet, and recovering a portion of the mess, put it on the table for the use of poor Smallbones.  “Now then, my dog, we will go on deck.”  Mr Vanslyperken left the cabin, followed by Snarleyyow; but as soon as his master was half way up the ladder, Snarleyyow turned back, leaped on the chair, from the chair to the table, and then finished the whole of the breakfast appropriated for Smallbones.  Having effected this, the dog followed his master.

Chapter III

A retrospect, and short description of a new character

But we must leave poor Smallbones to lament his hard fate in the fore peak of the vessel, and Mr Vanslyperken and his dog to walk the quarter-deck, while we make our readers a little better acquainted with the times in which the scenes passed which we are now describing, as well as with the history of Mr Vanslyperken.

The date in our first chapter, that of the year 1699, will, if they refer back to history, show them that William of Nassau had been a few years on the English throne, and that peace had just been concluded between England with its allies and France.  The king occasionally passed his time in Holland, among his Dutch countrymen, and the English and Dutch fleets, which but a few years before were engaging with such an obstinacy of courage, had lately sailed together, and turned their guns against the French.  William, like all those continental princes who have been called to the English throne, showed much favour to his own countrymen, and England was overrun with Dutch favourites, Dutch courtiers, and peers of Dutch extraction.  He would not even part with his Dutch guards, and was at issue with the Commons of England on that very account.  But the war was now over, and most of the English and Dutch navy lay dismantled in port, a few small vessels only being in commission to intercept the smuggling from France that was carrying on, much to the detriment of English manufacture, of certain articles then denominated alamodes and lutestrings.  The cutter we have described was on this service, and was named the Yungfrau, although built in England, and forming a part of the English naval force.