OR,

THE SMUGGLER AND THE DWARF.

BY

THE OLD SAILOR,

AUTHOR OF

TOUGH YARNS," "STORIES OF GREENWICH

HOSPITAL," &c.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

LONDON:

RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STREET.

508.

Printed by J. L. Cox and SONS, 75, Great Queen Street,

Lincoln's-Inn Fields.

BOD

ΤΟ

MY LONG-ESTEEMED FRIEND

GEORGE CRUIKSHANK,

These Volumes

ARE

DEDICATED

AS A TOKEN OF SINCERE REGARD,

БУ

THE OLD SAILOR.

HAMILTON KING.

CHAPTER I.

But she, as one nigh of her wits depriv'd,
With nought but ghastly lookes him answered;
Like to a ghost, that lately is reviv'd

From Stygian shores where late it wandered :
So both at her, and each at other wondered.

SPENSER.

"OH! what shall I do ?-where can I go?— will nobody help me?" were the cries of a little girl about four years old, as she stood trembling and weeping at the entrance to a piece of meadow land near the sea-port town of Weymouth. The only individual in sight was a stout-made elderly gentleman, mounted upon a superb grey horse, apparently as quiet and as playful as a lamb, for while it walked soberly