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

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" I.Jet iu thtiiIk of tiets ta It s.tI
F'ut ll many a i4thon)m tIcctp
BYk titm wnild alt stol:lly s-teet p:'Psinure I'
(At napbel I.
LoXo(N( and d(e ary didil thle 0thours appear to
tattnstabl:, beforet'e the thllit- tide had so fhr receded, as to leave the sands entirely exposed ttl
hi;s searclh for the bodies oif his lost shipmates.
Severa(ttl 1h1ad beet retscuedt firom thI'e Wild fuiry of
tihe waves thnt}selves, sv and onel by one, as thle tlc.
lan(tholy Contv ieli hon that lifet had ceasedl was foirced
or. tihe survivors, they had been decently interred in graves dug oI tIhe very' margin of titat el ettntlte. Ott whlich they Iad passed their lives. lut
t:ill the i'in:t lotliest kntowtl anld itost beloved s,as
Ittissi g, 11and1 tlie( h itt:tttant paced th}e (l)toa{' ctt
that was now teft bt twen t-c tie {:;t (t)It tte cliffis a:nd
the rat i't5t otttt \\ itth hurried strides ad a fevt'r.
ihl: eye, watch itig and foltlowing those trlagitnt eo:Ir{
o(f the wreck that the sea still:coltitt(d to c(ast or
the beaclt. Livixtit and dead, he nowv fttitd, tlhat
tof those ivito hadt l-ately been in tte Ariel, otity
two were.t lissint. ()f thle otirmet' lie tctll( ttus8ter tut twelve, besides Merry and hii:sclft; andl hii
toet hltad talrteady illtetre'fd more thal hall tl hat itl-tit
et~'' f tie latte:r, li:c, togetler, e' tbitat:( l a.tll