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

of the fr'igairte. The former wvas a silent, and ap
patently an abstracted, bttt in re ality (a deeply inteCIreStd listener tt the dis(ourse; aid thPerc were
mlaoments wlhn hc bel)nt his 0(looks onl thOe spetakeirs,
as if het sourlt morel it their chlaracters tat:l was
exhibit edt by th}e gay trifling of the moment. Caplt
tain Mtunson seldom allowetI a m-tcle of his lwrin
kiledt fe.atures to disturtb their repose; and if he
had not thet real dignity to repress the untinmtly
mirth otf is office.r;s, Ihe had too inucl good natttre
to wish} to distut'rb tlteir harmljes s etjoymllients. tI'e
exptt*ressedl himnselfs atisfied w\ith the proposed irrangemenl11t'lts, and beekolned t{o Ihis stew'ard to p)lace
before thtem tthe tusual bevert-age, ith. whlicl all
their contsultationts con0 tt(lecd.
The sailing-master a)ppetaried to think that the
samte )order' wa\S to be observed in tlheir )Oations
as itn (ctlutil), atld hel.t)ing himself to a tallowanee w\}ie}t retainted itS lule r'evenftl in its (diluted
state, he Tlirst raised it to the lig.ht, and then o01)
("'T'}its ship'swater is nearly te cotttour of rumt
tof itsIft; if it only had its flavotur, what it set ottf
hearty dogs we shoull be. Air'. G-riflith, I find
you are willitn( to haul your and-tacks aboat'rd.
Well, it's naitural fbo youtht{ to love the earth; but
there is one man, atnd he is 8ajiln':-ste of t' this
shitp, who saw l.and ct ought last nightt to iast htinl
a twelvemolth. t Itt if yotu will o, here's t good
landt-Ifallt and a better ofling to ytou. (a>)tai
MunJ-Tson-, iny respecfts to you. I stayS sit, if ve
should keepl the ship itmore to tIhe south'tard(J it's
nmy opinion, tand th)at')s bult onet uelIs; \man e Should
ItI in withl some of them eutmy's hltolueward-bound
\?est-:(ltianic:tn, and;t find wthlit e-.withal to IteVl.p thle
lit i in uIs whel we sec fit to go asbloue outrseltves.'
As the tough old sailor ma de tfreqtlent ppliea