much spun out to a seafarer, but landsmen like to hear of the sea and its ways; and as more landsmen than seamen, probably, read the " Atlantic Monthly," I have told them of one genuine sea-song, and its time and place. The classic sheet shanty. Then there are pumping-songs. "The dismal sound of the pumps is heard," says Mr. Webster's Plymouth-Rock Oration ; but being a part of the daily morning duty of a well-disciplined merchant vessel,?just a few minutes' spell to keep the vessel free and cargo unharmed by bilge-water,?it is not a dismal sound at all, but rather a lively one. It was a favorite amusement with us passengers on board the --- to go forward about pumping-time to the break of the deck and listen. Any quick tune to which you might work a fire-engine will serve for the music, and the words were varied with every fancy. "Pay me the money down," was one favorite chorus, and the verse ran thus:? Not much sense in all this, but it served to man and move the brakes merrily. Then there were other choruses, which, were heard from time to time, ?" And the young gals goes a weepin',"?" O long storm, storm along stormy"; but the favorite tune was "Money down," at least with our crew. They were not an avaricious set, either; for their parting ceremony, on embarking, was to pitch the last half-dollars of their advance on to the wharf, to be scrambled for