Wicked Captain Walshawe, Of Wauling

though good-humoured looking, with that style of features which is termed potato; and in figure she was a little too plump, and rather short.

The Captain in his early days, and so long as health and strength permitted, was a scamp of the active, intriguing sort; and spent his days and nights in sowing his wild oats, of which he seemed to have an inexhaustible stock.