“Purser rigged and parish damned,” is the sailor saying in the American Navy, when the tyro first mounts the lined frock and blue jacket, aptly manufactured for him in a State Prison ashore.

At some eight decades young (born 1908 according to the Hornbook of Virginia History), he discussed history as he saw and lived it.

Sayd then that Squire: The Lady which doth owne This Castle, is by name Briana hight. Then which a prouder Lady liveth none:

Cruising along at fifty miles per hour.