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

T111E PILOT. 8
i Ay, ay, sir, they see us, anl mnealn to hit us,
too, butt we ate running across their tire, and thtat.
witI a tcit-knot breeze; butt, whlen we heave i
stays, and get in a line with their guns wtt ae shall
see, and it maly be, fe.el, more of tlIeir wo\rk thtan:we do now; a thirty-two tlt t'raineld as casily aas
at ftrlitl-p)iece or a (iucking gutn.t
Biarnstable was Struck witht til tttrtth of this observation, but as there existed an ilmmediate necessity for placintg the S'choon1er ill tihe veit'y situation
to vwhichl the.lt.' th alluded, lt( gave t is orders at
olce), atnld tht ve-ssel camte aboutl and ran w vith hler
head pointing towards thle sca, iln as short a tile a,
(twe have takenl to record it.
T hTlere,= they have its nld,,v or ntevert,"t cri(:'i the
lictutenant, whent the evolutiotn a.s'conpleted. T If
wve tetch to witdwatr:d of tle torthern:l pointt, we
shall lay out intto tlhe oling, and tl( in tenl ltinuitts we\.
mIight laugh at Queen mAnne's pocket-piece, w\}tich,
vou know, old boy, sent a ball fiom DI)ter to ( a-._ky, sir, P've heardl of the gunt " returned the
grave seamran, "and a lively piece it must hattve
)bee:n, il thle streights were always oft the saine
vwidth they tare now. 3But I see. that, (/Ca)tain
B a rnstable, whtichi i s ))imor.e d anlgerotus thtn a(
dozetl of the eaviest cannaton that were. ever cast
can be at htalf a leagues distance. 1"he w te r
is tbu.ltinllg throtlgh outr lee-scuppers, al-eady,
i And what of that? haven't I buried hler guns
often, and yet kept every sl)ar in her withloit
riatcl tr)t.' Slinter?"' At, ay, sit', yot have (done it, atnd caln do it'ta in, whlere there is sea-rt'oomt)~ wt8hichl is all that ta
anv wants fcomfort in this life. 1ti1t vwhen 1we