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

volumes, but little agitated by thle,air. Tl'te con
sequent t)ubstiurity added d(eetply to tile gdIloorn of
thel- night, and it \would h.ave been ditticcu!t fbor owne
tess atcuai.n:tced than Dillon with tlie strroundinttlt
localities, to have ftund the path wfich led to the
tdwelling of Colonel iottward, After somt littlet,eittrehl tllis desirtable objejct was A elfiited, and thlte
civilianl led the \'ay, with rapid'strides, tow'f:ards
th e Azbbey.
C A.y, ay!" said'l'om, who foltowed hIis steps,
indt eqtualled his p}acs, without atty app)arent efc
itrt, "you shore-pteople have an easy way i to find
your cour'se and dist:antt, \v}itl xou g{ t t' to the:
track. I was once left by t}e crtaft I btelonged to,
inl "Boston), to find my wVay to Ply )outh, whiclt is
a tmiatter of fiftef't leauets, or thercaway; atnd,
so titdintg ntingl \was bound up tlhe a.-t, after
lying-by for a Ntvweck, I concluded to haul abloalrdl
my lantd-tacks. I spent the better ptart of' t anlfo
tlher wcek in a s(earch lt b soni hooker, on t.tboard
whictle.. might Nwork, my passage across the coutlltry, fot money w\as as scarce then with old (. oin
C(otizr a's it is now, and is likely to be, unless tlhe
fisheries) get a good ltff soton; but it seems that
nothing but your horse-flesh, and horned eattle,
tand(! jack-asses, arT'e pr'ivileted to (Io the pu)tllintg
land hauling in your sltore-.hoolers; and I \\was
tforct(ed to pay a weekl's wages fot la brth, )besidel(.s
keeping a banyan on a amouthful of lread atnd
clhecse, tfrom the time we e }ove-lmp i}]n Boston, till
w e came-to ion l)lymoutl town(. v}}i
1' It was certainly an unrteasonable). exaction, on
tI:e part of thell, wra'gt)oers;, from) n a mant in your s'itmation," said l)illon, in a fi'iendly, soothing tone
tof voice, that (lenoted a \willingness to pt)rsieU the
e1onvertsat ion,
"'lv situation was that ot a eabiln p)\ssenger:,