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

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ttdual.ly advaliced, and it: 1becam1e laittelous to
keet.) (lh se'ntinels'and Jpicket in a sittuatioitl) where
ti}e) were liable to b s1 ell by tany.st a.g{sdr
w\N )o might be passing nll ear!l1 the t woot. } an tual
rct)ltnstatcd.ga silat anyt atternation, t s being (tntirely ulninlitarty, lt' he was apt to carry lis:totions of' tactics to extrelets whenever he camt l in
cotllision with a sctatoilirc; but iti' this inst.ance
is supetrior twas fi t' and the only conessti on
tile iat)tatinl C(o1 l(tt o})ttil Wtilas thie permtission to
place a solitaryt slttine(l w\ithin a few feet of it' te
vattt tltougIl tdel the f tite ( oe rt1it 1 tling
walls o0f the bltiiltiingt itselfL \ itlt this sligLht devi:ttion in their iatge'nt-inent5s, thc uteasy patty re'(
Ilaincd for sevt.. tl - hours lont,r.. iltattielttlSy awatingq tie period when they should he requtired to
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The glnts first fir'ed friou t}he Alacrity } ttld l:(C ben
is.iii.tfx atildibfllc ant d wietre' pi'ro otlimtcd %lby (ti'tittl, wt'tost! tacztisted e(ar detectCd t 1 tillCtal!of tlle
)e 1(.t that Wais used, asI not Id(tNcI!di1i twisti tlhe
sctoonotC. t'Ahen the rapid tlhought dit;tt t rHtl 8. ing
of the "spirited cttnt:iionade hbeeunel asudi:lict it Was
Witit difficulty that Griflith (eould restrain eifther htis
\rit N tlinttls O. tl.e Condluctt 01 his collmpanions with:in
tinose bounds that prtldetce an-ld their situation tre-:litred.'The last gun vas, however, tired and n1ot
a t1ma1 had left tIhe vatut, a0nd conjettures as to tile
rtesTllt of thle fitht: succeededt to t105se whfichf }ltad
e't 11ad1 Oe of t he latef lt ( t':' Of t110e eo)llataitlts (r-tl'int, the action. t Some of tl:e mt-tl.arines would rtise
thieit }ctads from the fracgmnlents wh-liceh servedl it}tC
as thtle ltl0lo\ 5 1n whicl thay w\ere sCeeitt)g (distul'ett d atnd stolein s.ltelrs tir, ti:d after bsit(niirtl
to th10e (.ttnlton, wouldl i(Lt111 (.'l0111}0se thdt11s\s (
0. slelp, like itcit who\\i) feilt no coneern it n a eontet,in whiicl tlhey did( lnot part: icipat,,t. (O)tthers, ote(
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