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IN the reign of Henry VIII., a family of the name of Jenkin, claiming to come from York, and bearing the arms of Jenkin ap Philip of St. Melans, are found reputably settled in the county of Kent.
And as it was, just when they got haud of my arm to have me out of the fray, I got the lick that donnerit me from a left- handed lighterman." Master George looked to the apprentices as if to demand the truth of this story. "It is just as he says, sir," replied Jenkin; "only I heard nothing about pigs.
Ricketts, who was lost in the La Plata, were among his visitors. During October, 1860, he superintended the repairs of the Bona-Spartivento cable, revisiting Chia and Cagliari, then full of Garibaldi's troops. The cable, which had been broken by the anchors of coral fishers, was grapnelled with difficulty. 'What rocks we did hook! writes Jenkin.
It does not seem that our young midshipman so much as once set eyes on Bonaparte; and yet in other ways Jenkin was more fortunate than some of his comrades. He drew in water-colour; not so badly as his father, yet ill enough; and this art was so rare aboard the Conqueror that even his humble proficiency marked him out and procured him some alleviations.
That great electrician, indeed, seems to have infected his visitor during their brief contact with the magnetic force of his personality and enthusiasm. The year was propitious, and, in addition to this friend, Fortune about the same time bestowed a still better gift on Jenkin.
Three years subsequent to the publication of these researches that is to say, on January 29, 1835 Faraday read before the Royal Society a paper 'On the influence by induction of an electric current upon itself. A shock and spark of a peculiar character had been observed by a young man named William Jenkin, who must have been a youth of some scientific promise, but who, as Faraday once informed me, was dissuaded by his own father from having anything to do with science.
"What is it?" said Jenkin; "why, have I not fixed on Peg-a-Ramsay to be my true love, from the day I came to her old father's shop? and have I not carried her pattens and her chopines for three years, and borne her prayer-book to church, and brushed the cushion for her to kneel down upon, and did she ever say me nay?"
But I might have heard all about him from Dame Suddlechop, for she spoke of my meeting him at Enfield Chase, with some other good fellows, to do a robbery on one that goes northward with a store of treasure." "And you did not agree to this fine project?" said Moniplies. "I cursed her for a hag, and came away about my business," answered Jenkin. "Ay, and what said she to that, man?
"Drunken?" answered his trusty adherent, "and is this the story? why, how could I but drink your lordship's health on my bare knees, when Master Jenkin began it to me? hang them that would not I would have cut the impudent knave's hams with my broadsword, that should make scruple of it, and so have made him kneel when he should have found it difficult to rise again.
"Jenkin, Jenkin!" cried the landlord, not minding what his guest said, but addressing a boy who was cleaning some pewter stoups in a kitchen at the end of the passage "come here, my man. Run down by the lanes as fast as you can go, and tell Master Plessis that there are two gentlemen coming to his house, whose looks I don't like at all. One is a state messenger, if I'm not much mistaken.
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