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

ilke a outrtto0ts (lt)t)tampion the) powerfuit l la)tatgit ist
\%it't whlich ste was ab(tout to contend. Not atwthr mitllute elapsed,, l:eC he the ship) was throwing,:r
th waterTs asidet, with a lively p)rogress anld,) obdient to liet' hel, was b.rought s tais ea t te tsiretd course as the direct ion of' te w ind wott.t I allow.''h hurrlly and bistle oil the yards gradtually stubtsitedt and the meni slowlt (descendedt to the
deck, allt strainingll their ey.s to-e t hlt tle glootli
in) wh1.ich thcy W\et'c etvcloiltd, altd some shaking
thelir heads, in melancholy (1otl{), atftaid to exltS'C
Ite apltret'elt siotns thley really entertained. All on
b)oard anxiously waited {ot' the fury of' thte <ale
fit' theret w\re nt one t o igtiorant ort intcxti)(cr4lic)(di
int that trallant lrigatt as Inot to know, tht t as yet,
they otly felt t tlit itifittt t fitrts of the xitind. tacit
tnotnetd, however, it icr ttasdt it) powcr, t}touglt
so grad al was the alte rationt, tlt the retiev1ti(
martiners hettan to believe thl'lat all theitr l:)oomv
foretbodin.s w\ere lot to be realized. Dr)ttittn this
short interval of uncel rtainty, no (o:ther souttds wetre
t}artd thian the whistlin of the breeze, as it passedl (qticktyl tllo-: tildsll s t1e ss ofl tiggintll that helongedt toe tahe vesseltl fdthe tlashilg (oft le sl)tiIy,
that b)e,:gan to fly fromt }heri bows, liti tlhe tbatn of
a cataract.
It llows fi'esh,' cried C lriftit}h, whol was the
first to speakt in that mointnt of doub tlt and a,;xicty;' but it. is n(o more ti-tan Ia ctal) filt of' wvind.
1fter all. live us clIbow-rootn, atd thie righ:}t catv'ass, M r. Pilot, and I'ii handdle the ship like a; c -
letnman's yacht, int ttis breez-e."," Wi! she say, think ye, tindet thiis sail S" said
the low voic:ee of the sttratellf:t,
" She vwill d(l allt t'ltat mledman, it1n reasont), catt astI
of wood at)d ironi,' retu'.r!n'dft the lieutenantt; "b mt
thle vessel d(ttt float:f ihc 0ccti t twill tack ol