broad Atlantic into port. When the owners of the vessel learned the circumstances, they at once made him captain, and sent him to the West Indies. So you see that John Paul was born under an unusually lucky star.
When he was twenty-four years old, he made another trip to Scotland, and some people say that he was engaged in smuggling in the Isle of Man. Nobody ever told him this to his face however and, when he heard about the old rumor later in life he denied it.
He had now come to be twenty-six years old and he went back to Virginia, where his good brother had lately died, intending to settle down comfortably on the large estate, and be a country gentleman, and live out the rest of his days in peace and ease. For two years, he stayed on the old place, living a serene and placid life among his cattle herds and horses, and it was then that he took the name of Jones, perhaps because it was a plain and quiet name, and suitable to the
