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

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tead norti-caster, you oi)se itacket (l. f" saitt
iarnstiable;'' whiie a'1e oulr fienids and con ntrytt:. t' )Wo are ol.t the 10a(id a r1 we to leave thwe rn
to.) s, {llt" ff0f 1i}liJets or rot int (ltin-eons':t
The eoekswaii listened with great earntstnesl s
andt wlien his comnniailder 11ad ( Spoke.n)) he struct-k
the palm of is blroad hanld tagailnsst is brawllny
thtigh, with a report like a pistoi, alnd anlswe red,
< I see how:it is, Sir; syou reck onl tihe r'ed coalts
hiiave Mr. (.riffith in tow. Just ru n1 the s(hlt(:)onter
into shoal watver, Captain:llarnstable, and drop) an
anttchor', whteret we c\(:.t getf tihe lo)lg gun to bear (.)n
ti}1em ant d iv: met I the wh-lat'e-.)toat and five or s>ix
men to back inme.. —they must have (ot:ler s it theiy
ge~'..t: an o:lhn l)elr t' run them aboard!'
(; Fool! do you thilnk a t)oat's e rew could conm
ttl(1 w. ith fifty artted soldiers r"
" Soldiers!" ct' ech'Tomn, whose spirits, hao
beet strongly (xc ited by thle confliet, snalppintg his
fiilners with} inetfla)e disdtain, l th}at titr all thfie st.iiietrs that were ever rigged one(: wl alec conult d kill
a thonsand(i of' them! and here stands thle illmane thlat
fias killt(/ed his round t undred ott whales i''
"'shtaw, you gram)npus, (1o you turnt bragga rt in
your( otld agve.'>
" It:s'11 l)ra (,tu'in,) sir, to Sf)teakl a l)g-l)ook,
trutht tbut if Calptaint.liarnstable t|hinks that old('.'omt Coffiln caries "a speakinpg trluml)pet fi)r a
fitu.tre }1(<tt1, let l}intl pass the word f'trrard to 1man
thbe b.oats.')
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No" N, -no, my o1(t master at tihe marliungspike,"
said Barnstat})l, kindly, "I know1 t)w thee too w\ell,
t01ou b)rothetr of Neptune I hut, shall we not throw
t}he b{readt-rool dust in those tinglishlmern's eyes,)
by wearing their buntintt r awhile, till something
may oiler to help our capt uired eointryminen."