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

4CO TUE PILOT.
that swept across the water wvith a fiulness that
needted n0o fctuitious aid to renfder it audible*;" Ay, there comes one of the lieutetnants:, with
his ay, ax'," said ipoltrope.-.. pipe the side, there,
you boatstwain's-mate! But here's another fellow
more on our quarter l boat:a-thoy!
" Alatcrity"...-r.ta.teturned alnotherl voice, i n a dti
i-eetiont di(l'erent frilo tle otll er
Alacr~ity!'t here goes my commission of Cap>
taitl of this ceraft, ill t wVill}': returned the sailingmastelr -"i'lmat is as much as to say, here comes
onte who w ill command when he,gets oln board,
Weill xwellt it is 1Mr (CriMfithlt and I etan't sayW notwithstanding his love of knee-bukles, atd tsmall
-wares, h)it I'1mt1 glad lie is out of the hands of tmtt
En;trlish Ay, hetre they all come upon uIIs at on0ce
hlete is anoth}er feillowmv that pulls like the- jollyboat, coming up on our leeIceearn, withi tt ain l -.let
us see itf he is asleep.. — boat a-bory!"'
" Flta,','" a:tnswered atr third v- - oice friom a small,
light:-Trowinig botat which had approached very ne;ar
the cutter, in a dii-ect line fiom the cl:liff, WVithout
being observed.
i":'IFa," I" > elchoed I1.-ltropet drlop)ing his trumpet
inil axmazement-...... -" t}hat's 1a hi,:t(b word to comet out of
a jolly-tboat! Jack Manly himself eould not have
sp)olkce it with a fuller mto tth hu|-}t.. t I'lt kP11 vnow who it
is thaut ciarrties sutch a we at lher helm, witlt a t Yank. ee
ma!ttl-o!f-Owar's prize! Boat a.-hoy! I say."
Tlis last call was uttered in thl:ose shoit- mena-t
eing tonets, that are- intclenled to bie underst ood as
intilmating that t the p arty hailin is rtl earjlst; anl
it caused the menl who wtere ro wing an( w lho
wetrec Now qutite close to thee cutter to suispend
their stroksi: ( simul t tanxeousty, as if they dreaded
tha}i the cttty iwould be inst antly syucceeded by some
1more eliicint means of' ascertaining theit charac.