5 8 10 Such a cynosure, at least in
aspect, and something such too in
his nature, though with very important
variations ^ made to become apparent that will evolve themselves
as the story proceds, was welkin-eyed
Billy Budd,^ or Baby Budd as yet more
familiarly ^ under circumstances
hereafter to be given
he ^ at last came to be calld
at last
aged twenty- one two , a
tar foretopman of the British fleet toward
the close of the last decade of
the eighteenth century. Not ^ It was not very
long prior to the time of the
narration that follows he had
that he had entered the King's service fleet , having
been impressed on the Narrow Seas
5 8 10 Such a cynosure, at least in
aspect, and something such too in
his nature, though with very important
variations ^ made to become apparent that will evolve themselves
as the story proceds, was welkin-eyed
Billy Budd,^ or Baby Budd as yet more
familiarly ^ under circumstances
hereafter to be given
he ^ at last came to be calld
at last
aged twenty- one two , a
tar foretopman of the British fleet toward
the close of the last decade of
the eighteenth century. Not ^ It was not very
long prior to the time of the
narration that follows he had
that he had entered the King's service fleet , having
been impressed on the Narrow Seas

Transcribed by: John Bryant