The pilot: a tale of the sea. By J. Fenimore Cooper.

Th'I'e commnander of the sehovcer threw back the
triumlphtant look of the marin, antd xctailnd, itn
Ihis joyous mannt}llelr..
"" ai s a good plan, and done like a seaman, Mr.
xriffith. Ay, ay, let the slehooner be employed,
tant i' it be necessary, you shall se her anchlored
in ote of their (uck-ponds, Nwith her brotadside to
beartt on the parltour-windows of' t:e best house in
the island! But twxenty marintes! they will cause
a jamlt in mIly little craft."
" Not a marn less th. twenty twould 0 lh pro
dlent," returned Gfit't h. "t More service may ol*.
f!r tbhan that we seek'."
Barnstal.le well understood his allusion, but still
lhe rel plied +
Make it searen and I wX'4il give you i.oott r t)m i
thirty. lBut t}hese soldiiers never know howv to
stow afway the(*ir' anul'1s t'and legs, tunlecs8 ait a drill.
One will takle the xroom of.two s"ailors; they swinlg
their 4,hammociks thw\art-ships, heads to leff\veward,(l
and thenl turn-out wrong) end uppermosltt t ait l teall.
Why, datinn it, sir, the cfhalaik mnd rottentwstone of
twenty soldiers wiltt elhofi y hatchlls "
I (-ive me the taunchtt, Captain Aunsont " exclaimed the inditgnant mnarine, " and;we vwill followv
Mr. Griffith in an open boat, rathletr than put Captain B.arnstable to so much 1(0ineon'venience."; No, no, Manual," cried tihe other, exending
his tnmusctulart arm across t} table, with an opel r
p)alm, to thle isoldier;' you would allt t cmte so
manly Jolahs int unitform, and I doubt whethert the
fish could digest your eartridgtd-boxes and bayonetoe)lts. You htaltl go with mtc, and le't arn, with yout
own eyes, w}th(er wet k ee the cat's-watcht aboart
he Ariel that you joke about."
The laugh 9twas genleral, at the expense of the.twdier, if we exeept the pilot atl( the commantder