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

t(posedly while htis little sunken e yes begant to
twinktile \with pltcasttre at tle sight, " the gentletmant hXas lost his rtckonting, and dtto't know w-hich
Nway to head,) to takte hiisetlf blck into blue \watel.
"'''is t fi:;-bacik' exclaimned tlhe lieutenatnt' e dill soon make head-.way, and be oilf'"
n, sit','is a riht Nwhal t t " answered Tont;' salw hisM spottt; le threw lup a pair of as )retty
rainbowvs as a Christian would wish to look at.
It's a ri at otil-b>utt, that: tfelltow f>)
luarnstable lautlhted, turned hinmself away:t irm
the temptintf swit t, antl tried to look t. tihe clilb;
atnlmd t l01 t(10co)tscioously bent his loni.itl. cy(iys tagain
onil the sit) rish'iiit -I'l, who was t llhrowin"t his hlwtz'g
ontI th e s t%:..t atrnal tile <,tte i
ridas t titol le teinjrtaty t1 fIomi 5t1 we, o tin tlit'
recollect ion of his early htabits, atl lenlth prevtiai'ed
over ihis anxiety in I hiatclf of his fi'icnds, and the
tvottn othlicct inquired of his coOkswNa iln -
"' Is t} here aty wf}aI-linle ill te boa t, to 11ma"ke
fatst to that harpoont Iht\\ic you bear about xwith 3you
in ar weathi.er or toul?'
" I never' trust the boat from the schooner
wYithouat p>fa't of a shot, sir'," returned the cockswain t; theire is something nateralt in the sight
of a ta ih to my old( eyes.'
Barnstabl't looked att his Nwatch, atnd( again at the
ctliffs, whenll he exclaim d, in joyous to les-..
i Cive stron' wt-ay, my heai'ties'[!h ere( seetms
nothinlg bettri' to b done; lt et utls h ave a stroke of
t harpoon at that impudltent irascel."
The tien sh}outed sp)ontaneott sly, and the old
cockswa in sulfe.redt his soleinl visage t trtelax ir)to
a strmall lauttgh, while the whale-oat' sprung forward like a couirser fo)r the gaol. During the fet N
tilnutces they wetrer pullhg towairts their gamt
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