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

540 TIlL PILO'I'
the lee side of a.hou- tSe.a......y. here it is, No.. 10,
(:Corhill~, Blfoston. I took care.......... to get her a good
warm birth, seeing tlhat a womant of eighty wants
a snugtt' ante}horage-.. -at her tui e t of ltife, if ever."
I X ill (do it myself, l)Xvid,"4 cried Barntstable,
stru"tlu*t, to conceal his emotion; " I will call on
her the instant we let go our anchor in Boston
harbour and as lyour credit can't be large, I will di.
vile my own tpurse with her!"
"l'the saiintg-taster was powerfully attreted by
thlis tttkind otri thet uscltt es of his hard weather-t
beaten ftce working: convultsively, antl it was a
moment bef)re he lcould tr rust lhis voice! in tlreply.
" Vknow you wouldtt, )ieltey, kt yxl ot
wouldat he at length uttered, grasping the hand of
1.Barnsttable wtith a partion of his ftormer strength
C { kntow you would give the old womalt one of
your Oltw: i\mb if it would (lo a sei.vi ee ^to tlhe
mother, of o'a messmaet t —.-.v.hich it would not -.-8seein}g that It aml not the son of a-cannibalu; hut you
are -out oft your' own fhthe's. ooks, and it's too of.
ten stoal wa4tter in yttour pockets to help any one.-......more espaecially since you have just been spliced
to a pretty young bod —: —that will want all your
spiate coppers?'
tit I atm masterl otf mty own t'ortune," said:Gritfl'it}t, " and am rtich.''." Ay, ay, I have hleard it said you could build
fri.igate and set her afloat all a-tauntt-)o withoutt
thrusting your hand- i.. —-into any man's putse -I -.but
"'An td I pledge you tlhe honour of a nav al officter,"
continued the ytoung sailort': that she shall want
for tnothlinog; not even tle care an{d tenderness of
a dutiful son.''
Bolt0rope appeatjed to be choking; he mna(le at
fttenm1pt to raise his exhausted firamett on the 0 eouct h