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

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iheads t(Myards the tanttd, and as the huge blace k
side of" t.he t}bre.t.-dleeker, checkrered xwv1ith s triple
batteries, frowned to}. upotl her ftoe, it belheld
forth a iloodt of fire rand smoke, accompanined by at
bellowingr roarn that mocked the surly moatinlgs' of
the slteeping oecant. The nerves of tlhe brzavest
man in thile fi'igate contracted their fibres, as thle
ihurricane of inron h urtled by them, and each eye.appeared to gaze ill stttpid wonder, as if tracing the
f'li:rt of the swift en,'oilnes of destructionf But the't
voice of Captain Munmson was heard in the di'in,
slttouting, while'he waved his hat earnestly in thte
rieqiired ireet. io....
"' eet her mlect her w-itdh tihe helm,oy t)0 meet
her, Mix,. M-riltl, et her
Grifftlth had so flr' antfticiipated this movement, as
to have already order'ed the hwead of the fr'igate
turned in its ftormer courxse, wvhen sti'nek by the
unearthly cry of the last tow:es uttered by his com-n1mander, h.e bent Iiis he.ad, afrnd beheld the veneraMIe seZamanT drive(n through thle air, his hat s6iiI
wavin~g, Ihis gray hair floating in the winil, and his
e0ye set iin the wild Ilotok of death.
-" reat C('1od' exclaimed the youting man,
rushinr, to the side of the ship, wherc hIe wN4as just
in time to se the lifeless hotldy disappear in the
waters that we..re dyed in its b0ood(;' lie hIas
been struck by a shot!. I.ower-away tlhe boat,
lower-atway the jo lly-boat, tlhe barge:, tlhe t iger,' t'useleiss," interrupted the calm de ep voie
of the Pilot; " he has met a warv-rior's end, anrd he
sleeps in a sailor's grave!.The ship is getting b,-:-'ore Itl.e winld aftain, and the enemy is kee:ing hmis
vessel itawayV.,
ThIe youthtful flieutenant was reealled by these
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