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

C1A'PTElt VI
" Tate letter! ay I the letter'
V1iC thereo a womaol tloves tWo p..;afk tewr wishca
It parces the Iltsh.f-es I to} f i4) l.mCicnib maidei,
And o~eCry,wordf'si a smilte cacli line a tonmleY.
Due
T itm slunber- s of (th'iflith continutted till iate or,
the following 111o nin when he was avatkented by
the report' ofta cannont i iltssuin fo0 tIte tdeek above
i)nM. He tlirt.wi hirnsell,; listlessly, fr~om his cot,
anttItd )TTreivit the ofhtlieer ofUt malrines nelar hitn
as I}is stevantlt opeted the door of his state-roo1,0
lie inquired, wit h some little interest in lhis mtan10er, itf " the ship w:as in chase of any thing, thtat a
guttn was fired?"
"'Tis no mor tl han at hint to tle tAriel," the
1(11(er retfp iedl,"that there is buntinm abroltadt f
JI-en'i to retad. It seemls as if all hands wtere asleep
onl Itr d her, fior we have shown heer signial, these
ten ininltttes, and she takes us tfo a c:tt: ollie;, Ielve
by thet respect. lhe pays it."'
" Say), rat er, that she talces uts it t ant enily,
and isiariy,"' returned Grifftlh. " Brown D)iek
has played thle t'iglish s0t many trieks himself,
titat h(e:is tlsenlder of tis ftith."
(Why, they have so rt wn him 1 t11 a yellow flag ovei
a blue onl, with a eornet, and that spells AriLt