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

3a6 TRY'i~ PILOT,
sel,; and the ment, whlo, it. should scemr otught to
be devoting the brief moments of their tSxistetOc
to the mi-ghty btusiltess ofl tie hotlur, wvlee COtsttlutly ctalled to attenld to the most trivial details
of their p)roeission. Ropes vwere coiled, aind the
slightest dttamagtres (ccasi ond by r the wavest w-ich,
at slo:tt interv:als, swept across the low decks of
the Ariel, \wet't repairdti, with the saie ttne:tcisio
and or0t s it'f she yet lay enht)ayed in the hatven
fi ro1 wxhitch slie had just i eell driven. In this
mntt1nner thle arm of(.l authority \as kept extendtled
)vertt the silent crew, not Iwith tle \lvain desire te
tpirestciv a linlgetr1ing t.hough useless exercis./e tof
powt'r, butt. with a view to tmaintain that unity ol
action, that,o1W conltd alone atfford theimr even a
ray of Ihope.
" She can mtake no head agtainst this sca, utder that rag of canvl\-ass,' slaid I:larnstalc, gloomit; addressi tngr tlhe co()ckswain, who, witl hltc
artmm, at(tls d an air otf cool resignatitn was h.lmttean
ittn his body on the vt0erge of the quattter-dect.,
while the schooner w\ts - pl mging tmadlyt in Xto(t
waves that ttlry butried her in their bosomt: (;t poor little th}ing t rebles like a f iightenet
child, ais she nict t.ts t} te water."'.l(111 sihlhtt Ihxityx, and shook his hiead, b.ctbre
Ite answeredttt&.. —---
"'f we ctuld ]have kept the head of thte mainmhast an hoM r lIonger, Wxve might hlave got anl offiin.g,
anl IBt:c}lhed to windward oft tihe shoals t; but as it
is, sir, imorttl inan can't d(riv a erat.' o Nwind-.
\ward.l.... shle sets bodily in to land, and will be in}
tle bretakers int less than an hour, unless God "wills
that the wilnd shall cease to l)tlow."' te have no hope left us, but to anchor; out
t'round t tack le may yet bring her up."'
Tomrn turnedi to his comImantler, and replied, so