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

Al::!A] ['I'.W]ii{;.X...v.it.en thcs2,.o iprmigit
Do s:O caljointly 1et, lAt le t tllt ni say,
The:Vio are thei reiason,-..t.'lhcyv aet natutr
For, I btiLeve thley are j portentowls things
Unrto the clinr:te that they point upon.'
tu: reader wvill discover, by refti.tring to tilhe
timle co:nsutled in the "ot"c',roinr) events th:at tlhe
Ariel, with her prizc, did not anchor in the.) bay,
already -menttlion1ed, until (G.riftith. and lhis party
thad beetn bor severat hourstt in the custody of their
eneniitS,'.l.'e stthe upposcd capture of the rebel
schost:i',c::r w-as at itcident thttt sxcit'ed Ih'ut littlc
itltercst, aUtd tno' stur! risc aonlriug a l)peplf. e who
\eiet'f2 accustonmt to) ctonsider their seamcn as min.
vi:neii)le; antl t'iarsttable had not fiound it: a (tifti
ctult task to t practi ise lIns deception onm t} et: f,,w,
rustics t'wloml tiocu sity inductled to ventiuret almlt.!
sidef th vessel din tin' the. short continatnce of
dal.yliglt. lWhen, how ever, the fie, otf eveni;n,gt
lt n..ti. to rise'alono; t}he tarrow h)asit, tandl thle
curvtatures otf its itargtin were:lost in tlt e singltI
outlinae otf its datitrk and tlootnv l r trde i, T yttount't
siltantl tlhoght it t ime to apt)ly himself in clarnest
to Ihi dli+ty.'I'he Alacrity, contaitinit 1 all lis
wn c.i'. W tottet'ehe, with t tAXieA l's 1 unde( I
wa s gotten', dilently unldr t a t taii\,ld d,itvii. easily
efi'crt tle Ia lti:y airl that swe(pt tfioni the latt stie
drifte d ii'n the harhotlr, tiill the o-pen sea liy
be.tre lhelr, wvi hen hetr scails vere \\ st pread, t and she
continl tei to ake thc b est of her way iii qtlucst
0. 0.(