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

. |, t teS tJ: X 0 s- tJt-'7'retaii tme, as a els l as a coJpy of the key- ani botlok
Itf op'trtuntity sthould ever 0oi', we ttn hZtaet, t
least, a ptletasantt (iscOtttu'se togetlle'r; )yto friotl t eu
totj of' the old toW ert int ttle ruinls, attnd I firom1 the
east w intoL of wnl, dressint-.rot o! inBt now for
thte garrison.l l addition to thie etom-1; tlnandant), Co1to}e1 t1oward, who rctiains all the fihercetesis of his
lrttt- mtilitary 1pr)ession, thellre is, as his second
in authority, flhat bane of ( ecilia's tapItltness, I it
DI)illont w.ith this long Savannaht fatc, stortitul eyes
of' black, and skin of the same colour.'fhis geon
tlteman you know, is a (distant relative of the ltowatIs, and wishes to be mt ore nearly alliedi. lI c is
poor, it. is trtte, bl)t tlhenl, as the colone- l daily rematrks, lie is a gtood and loyalt suj{ect, a( no re1bI. When If asi ked why }he was'inot in arims int
tthese stirrling times. contendingl toi thle pmince he
loves so mucht tihe colonel antswerIts that it is not
his fi.ote.ssiontl that he has be-en educated for the
iaws and was destinetl to fill one of the Ihiglest jut
dticial stti ons int the coloniets, and that he hoped
he shouldt yet live to see hitm sentence certain
atiitelessa gentlemen to condtin punishment.'lltis
watts consolit,.' to be sure h bu1t I bomet it. It o\wevert he left C aro lina w\ith us, at herl e he is, tnd
here he is likely to continue, tnless you catX) atc
himtl, tand anticlipate his judgientt t onl himself. t' is
atr1enttlemnan the colonel hlas long desitred to see, tlite
h}usbanl of' Cectiliat, and since the: nlews of you: r teig. on the toast~, the sliegt? has nleartly amountited to
a stottn.'IThe rconseqictes aret t hat tmy cousin
at tixst kept her lroom11, and then the colonel ketpt
herm there, and etein no', w she i8s prt'e1clde(d h'ottt
tearv6ing the wing ll'e inhabit. In addition to these
to () printcipal gattters, we havxe foltr'llen sxervants.
t wo black amta( two white; and an officcer anid twent' soldierst fti'o thie neit'lltouring town are billeted.q