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

most cordial mannet As the dista ane:and tihe
want of boats, pr(-event(ed any urt le eomnmunea,
tion, the solhlicxs, alter gazinqr gat the receding ves.
soe s for a time, disappeared frInom thl e clis, and
were 0soo0 los..t fIrom thle sight of the adventurou,}ts
nmariners. Ilo um' aftert hou: r was consumed in ti let
tedious navigation, atgainst an adverse ti.do, and the
short day was drawing to a close, blefore tlhey tiappt'oacthe(d the mouth of thleir lestitd haven. While
tnaking eone of thleir nume11rous stretclhes, to anld
from tle land,() the uItter int wl ich Tlarnstalkle co
tihm ted, patssed the vietim of thenir ntorning's s8p)ort
ridi ng on tlte water the wav'es tculing over' lis
huge carcass as on some rouided rock, and ahready
talt'roui(ndtd by tlhe s8lrks, who were preying oi
his deletnceless bo)ry.
See 1...aster C'ofi,"3 Cried the lieutenant.
~ epointing out t hjt: to his cocekswain as tley
glilded b y it), the shox'el-nosed trentlemen amre re(alin 1 d 1aintily; you l\hav' negl e ctod slhe ctiristian'a
duty of burying your dead."
T'le 0old(1 seaman c.ast a m)elancholy look at the
dead whale, antd r'eplied(,
t I I had thle crattr in Bloston llay, or' o0 the
S.andy Point ot' Aunnhy -Moy,'twould beh thle mtakinrt
of ne But riches and hlonour are for the gea'.
alntd the lared, andl there's nothing. left toi P)o(
Tom) (,oflin to do, btut to v(ee' tanld htaul 01) hisw:
wt.ling-tackl.e, that he may ride out the t'rest of the?
gtale of liit', witthoutt si'miing allny) of his old1 spars."
1 /low m *ow, long 3!7on!' cried his otfficer' these rocks and clils,t wiill shipi(wIlek you oil the
slhoals of poetry yet; you grow sentimental!''
~'fl'hl)en rocks migh)t wvrack any vessel tiat
strluck them' slaid time literal (ockswain; an d as
for. poetry,. wants none better' thai thet good old
ong of C.,aptain (Ki; t ut it's einough to raise s'