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

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witth t-he \o:lnt, aInd their baa-bote:,es they'il make
another Noah's.Ark of lier. I wVsoder they didn't
aII cone al)oatrd iln a coach (and six, or a oe ()horse
It w"as a t-lurj)ising relief to Barnstalle to l)e
able to give utterance to his hut out i rior a ft
lmomillents, ) y or(lderint the men to m:ake sundry
alterations in every department of the vessel, in a
(1ttu ick, hurrlie:d voice, that fabultdantly denoted not
onl0:y the ifporttanc e of Ins imptt)rotvemtV ents, bttt tlhe
temper in which they werv e dictated. in) his turn,
howeve., hte was soon comtpeilled to give way:by
th:e tarrival of (.ritilth, inl tie heavily-rowing lattunch
of' the tfrigatte, wvhich wtas crowded witl t at lr
9Wbody of the seamen who had beeln emplloyed int
tihe expeditit.M IIn thtis manner, boat after boat
$speedily arrlivedi and the whole, party Nwere once
1morec1: happil)y em:barked in safity, undert their nati: na t flag.
PThe small cajbin of t:he Alacrity was relinquished
to Colonel,oward and. }his tiards, w7ith tleir atte'ndants".'- The boats:were (ropped astern, each
protected by: its own keeper; and Griffith gave
iforth the -iantlatc, to fill the sails and steer broad
oiff ito the oceant. Fior Imore than an hourl the
cutter!held her course in this (lirectiont gtlidlin;
griceitlly througt t he glittering w\aters,l rising and
settling wheaviy oiln the long, smooth bllows, as it'
coinsclouts of tlheo unusual brdx:en} th}at sthe wcas
doonmed t o carry;but at the end of that periotld,
lter' head was once more brought near the wind,
and sthe was agaitn heldt at rest, awaiting ther apl
pearatttnc of0 thle davwn, i~n ortder to discover the position of the p}roudet r vessel, on which she was ptl)et- t
forminim the humble dtuty of a tende Mttt ore than
a hundred and fifty living Nmen werle crow ded witihin her narrow limits; and hetl decks rtretsente(l. in