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Don't you observe, Mr Simple, that all our gun-brigs, a sort of vessel that will certainly d n the inventor to all eternity, have nothing but low common names, such as Pincher, Thrasher, Boxer, Badger, and all that sort, which are quite good enough for them; whereas all our dashing saucy frigates have names as long as the main-top bowling, and hard enough to break your jaw such as Melpomeny, Terpsichory, Arethusy, Bacchanty fine flourishers, as long as their pennants which dip alongside in a calm."
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