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

in evert-y h.Sitgnalsbook we lhavet; surely'he can't
suspect. the.'14:lf isl of knowintg ow to read Yawt
I have known Yankees read more diffieult
Engiish," said Crifiith, smiling; b" ut, in truttt.
I su)ppose that tiarnst.able 1has beel, like yseltf,
keeping a dead reckoning of his time, anl d his m11n
have hl prohited by the occasion. She is lying too, I
{trust.:I
Ay! like a corkl itt a riilil-potnd,and I dare say
you are right,. G( ive'aistabtl: plenty of sea-t
roo0m, a he[wavy windt, ad but little, sail, and iett wtill
sendl his men below, put that fi:tlow le calls long.'o mt at de tiller, a tnd tllow himnself, and sleet) ast
quietly ats I ever could at ch.umrch."
~ Ah! yourt's is ta somnitllerous ortlhodoxy, Captain MNAanualt said the young saitort lautginr, wt ile
lihe slitpp4ed his arms intto the sleeves of a nlorninigm
round-about lt: cov.'ered Awith the gilded trapp-l)pings of
his proI'fessiont; " eep} appeast:' to comle most mtturally to all you idlers, iBut give ille a pissalge:%
and I will go ulp, and call tlhe schooner down to us
itn the turning of tant) hourglaIss?."
The indolent soldier rtaised himself f'omt the
teaning iosturetl he had takern against the tdoor of
the state-room,l a n (nt'iffit h proceeded throu'gh the
dtar ward-room up the narrtow stairs that led1 him
to the principal btattery of the shtip, and thenlce, by
another and broader fliglht of steps, to the open
dleel.
Thett) gale still tlew stroltg, ht steadily; tle
ltue wvater of the ocean; was risint'" itn mimict
mount-ains that we.re crownes d \with white fiamn,
V.which the wtind, at times, lifted fi'om its kinldred
element, to p'(optl: in moist, t hrough the airl, from
sullmm-it to summn-tit. But the ship rode ot fthese agui
tated billows with alls easy and regultar mnovx'emInt,
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