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That gentleman would, if you recollect, courteously beckon an offender to approach him, doffing his hat the while as if speaking to the quarter-deck; and then, begging the trembling youngster's pardon for detaining him, would proceed to inform him in the "politest and most genteel manner in the world" that he was "the d -d son of a sea cook," subsequently rattaning him furiously, amidst a plethora of expletives before which the worst Billingsgate faded into insignificance.
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