ABSTRACT
H e has ended his apprenticeship, and thoroughly learned his business. He no longer pays black mail to the usurious Jim, nor lends halfpence, that are never to be returned, to Captain Drake ; neither does he trouble himself about discharging the taxes so whimsically imposed by that most free-and-easy monarch, King Teddy Plight the First. If he chose, he could depose that upstart sovereign, or cause the gallant Duck to be degraded to the ranks; for Phil has such " luck on the crossing,"that the half-dozen little rips who compose this muddy band are envious of his success, and treat him with the greatest respect. Phil has only to raise the broom of rebellion, and the dynasty of the Flights would be puffed out as easily as a rushlight in a gale of wind.
