cophagas

Updated: May 24, 2025

"You have guessed right so far: but who do you think that Quaker is?" "There I'm at fault." "Mr Cophagas." At this intelligence Timothy gave a leap in the air, turned round on his heel, and tumbled on the grass in a fit of immoderate laughter. "Cophagus! a Quaker!" cried he at last. "Oh! I long to see him. Snuffle, snuffle broad brims wide skirts and so on. Capital!"

Frederick Marryat - Japhet, in Search of a Father