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

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which they blad just been relieved(l antd t puzzled
hlittsctf with conjecturing why a pilot \as to be
sough0tt at such a risk, fltis tmore ptivate feetintt gs
wo\(t then resumet tleir sway, and the recollection
cf America, his mistress, and his h0ome, minitgled
with the confilsedt imlages of the drowvsy youth.
The diaslhing of the billows against the side of the
ship1), the creaking otf guns, and bulk-hleads, with the
roaritng of the tepinpest:, )howevcr, became gradually
less and less distinct, until nature yielded t:o necessity, an(l the young man ftrgot even the romantic
images of his love, in the deep sleep of a seamaiv,
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