A Nautical Yarn

Bays that one of his voyages w;s made under a captain who was noted for workiag h!s crew ; and ou the trip home, having nothing else to do, he kcpt all hands to work " setting up ligging," an operation which is done by tightening the standing rierging which supports tho vessel's mast. '' Well," says old Ben, " it was nothing but setting riggin' alinost evcry day till we hovo in siglit of laud. We wcre bound for London, and just as we were passing the North Forelaud, we grounded in five futhom. Then the captain rippcd and swore till he was blue. - ' Heavo the lead,' says he. He hove first on the stab'ard and theu ou the lub'ard sido. Thero alie was, fast in thirty feet o' water, and she only drawed eigliteeu ! I guess our boys laughcd BÓnie when thoy foiind that wo had set up the rigin' sa much that we'd hauled her mant through the vessel's bottom