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

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me, priest, ift better ctalculators tan you ha int
tailcd t! IBecaulse a lbbery-n, he' a thorough
scamatil I'Il say that 1tkb the felltow. -because a
j)iilit chotses to say,' )i'inl me- off t.he~se here Vwo
itl,'t the ship is to 1)0 so cluttered with i sh:e-cattleC
that a inan will boe obIligated to sp)end h'alf his time
in making his martiersI Now nmind what I tell
you, priest, this tvery firolic Nwill cost (CongTress the
price of a year's ttwages for an able bodied sleamtan,
in butltjiu Z and ctanvass rt l scretns; besidtes thle
NvOwear' 4awn1d teart of i'unniil-gear' in shortet ning sail,
in order that t}he womeln tneed not be'sterieky it
sq-t1-l<s!"
I'hbe pr sence of MRi. Iloltrope being required,
to take lhaige of' the cuttler the divine wvas (lt.iced
ati oppor'tu.ity of dissenting from the opinions of
his ioug}iet cmpanion; for the loveliness of their
1ovcl shipmates had not fJtailed to plead loudly in
their ftvour> with every lmantl ilt the cutter whose
llabits allnd ideas had not become rigidly' set in obW
stilnacy.
By the time thte Alac.iity wvas hove-to, wvith her1
rheada towards the frigate, tihe Iag li e of boats
tfatt she 1had been. towving during thie!atter Dtart of
the night,;wxere brought to her sitde, and filled
wr ith nient~. A wild st:cene of unbridled meriistilent
andtl gayety s eeded, while the seamellne. were
extlhantg ing a thle c0tonlinemlent of the iprize fb1r their.ctctstomd lodgings int the shtip, duringg which the
reins of discipline we:tre slightly relaxe(d. jLtoud
laughl.0terv was echo-ed froml })oat to boat, as tley
glided bvy eac}i othel; and rliile jests, inttcrlarded
w\ith quaint hlmouts ant stranrge oaths, weret fieely!ba>ndic-lt 1'om mtout.a to mouth.'t he 1toise,'
howex(' evr, soon ce:!tVased, and the passage of Colonel
i-oward atld Idis Nwards was then effected, with less
tpr'eeipitaley, and diue decorum. Cap*tainj MI}unson,