Thus saying, he walked proudly with the poor tar, astern of him, until he came to a slop-shop, near Wellclose square: it was a Jew's. "Here, Moses," quoth the middy, who detected the Israelite bending looks of disdain and mistrust on the poor man, as if he considered the contents of his shop in danger: "come, Moses, a regular built _outrig_ for this _gentleman_," laying great stress on the word gentleman. This was _pitching_ it strong, but his heart was carrying _royals, sky-scrapers, moon-rakers_, and his _pulse_ was _sailing_ at the rate of _ten knots_ an hour at least; so elate was he to serve a brave man in distress, and above all, a son of the ocean: "come, let us have every thing good, and spic and span new."--"Pray, _Shair_, who's to pay?"--"_Myshelf._"--"O, your honour, that's right." The poor man retired to a back-room, and stepped forward clad from head to foot, and with two changes of linen and a pair of shoes (by the midshipman's order) tied up in a pocket-handkerchief under his arm. BOB CLEWLINES looked with a blush on his old clothes, and at this moment an almost naked boy passed by: the midshipman duly appreciated and truly interpreted one look of the tar. "Bob, I say, heave that overboard, and let the poor boy pick it up: one good turn deserves another." The payment was the next. "Three pounds fifteen.--Is that the lowest?"--"O, yesh: I don't gain five shillings by the whole deal."--"Well, then, do you take the case of my gold watch, and weigh it, and give me the produce of it."--"Let ush see: it's vary pretty, but not vary heavy; it's all fashion you see: indeed, it's a great pity to part, the vatch and the caish; watches are a drug now, or else I'd buy it; but just to oblige you, I'll see what I can give."--"Don't trouble yourself, Mosey; just do as you are bid: you take the outside case, and I'll keep the watch."--"I shall lend you four pounds upon it," resumed the Israelite; "and you may depend upon my honour to return it to you, when you bringsh me de monish."--"No, you won't, Mosey; you'll do just what I bid you."--"It will spoil the watch"--"Not a bit; she must work without her _jacket_, as my friend has often done in all weathers. I shall sell the outside case to serve a shipmate in distress; but the watch was left me by a dear friend, so I shall keep her: a metal case will do as well for a little time, and when fortune's breeze springs up again, _the case will be altered_."--"Vel, shair, you shall be obeyed: five pounds, five shillings is just the price of the weight; there's the money."--"Good morning, Master Moses; but do you, _Clewlines_, set sail again; I want to get you into port: it is only what I owe you. Were you not the kindest creature to me in the world _when I was confined to my berth with the yellow fever, and not expected to live a day?_ Come, come, you must take your cargo in; you must be _victualled_ as well as _refitted_. I have got a chalk at a house near this,--another shipmate