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

pride of thle chItapli ni, as to i!ld t, l l iti to irtellt
the soce tyi of the trude inastr, whose years thadi
brough9t 1ditn, aI t times, to take W certain views (of Iu. -
turity, that were singularly akffcted by the pet.,inliar character of the":individual. It mihh )t have
tbeen that both} fotuld( themselves out of tl eir placees...... -Iut it: w\as \vowint to some such secret sympathyl
let its ()rilt }. t. it it-would, that tleI twvo cameIt
to: be fto(I of each other's company. (0n the night
in question, l Mr.:o trop l.) had invited the ihal lain
to facorlany him {n t Alacrity; adding, in his:1road00l rougkh la guag,1e, that as there w1as to be
fightlint on shore, t his hand ml gi.gtht eome in play
vitation had beenTI acept edl) as well frm'a desire
to releve tile 1monotony of aa s life by any chiange
as p erhaps with a secret yearning in the breast of
the troubled divile), to get as n!ig.h to te rra f:11rma as
possible. A o.t.(l. oigly, after th le Pilot had lanided
w:itth hi fs bofist.erous party, t'he sailing- master and
the tca)lain, together with a boat swain's-mate and
some t en or twelvt seam.n, were left in quie t
possession of the e uttet. The titrst ftew hourls Of
this peaceable inmt:'.i.tourse had been spent y tihe
\tworthy messm isates, in the litt,a alie ahin of the vessel
over a can of grog; the sav oury relish of which
was llmueh inertease(d by a charalet:cristic disquisitioin
Con polermiceal,bj.eoct.~s, which Sour readers have
grt rean o rt raso to eretit. is not[ olr presentt hlttliot
IltO.' —v t c ll ) fit l'i l. i rl 1d: s i i d Pot he 0 l
to record. ~\ 0'!en, however, the;vilds invited the
nearer app)roach tso he ho.sti3le shre ts al ready men
tioned, the plirudent sailitngms.ter aj()turned the
tmoving l im:elf adt: thel can by, the same operati.on, to thet iuarter-l de ck.
" 41hcre," ttried the honest tar, plac)ting tit wood ff
en vessel, with greal seltt ontentment, by his side