. St. Nicholas [serial] . st to make Nick pull witha will, straight for home, for it was already past sixoclock, and she had a vivid picture in her mind ofthe sailors all on the shore waiting for their boat,and furiously angry with those who had stolen it. But Nick and Little Job had become hilarious,and preferred catching crabs and sousingSemanthy and the Baby, and rocking the boatfrom side to side to see how far it would tip withouttipping over, to going peaceably along. And all Semanthys remonstrances were in vain,until, suddenly, she espied a black cloud swiftlyclimbing the sky. Look there
. St. Nicholas [serial] . st to make Nick pull witha will, straight for home, for it was already past sixoclock, and she had a vivid picture in her mind ofthe sailors all on the shore waiting for their boat,and furiously angry with those who had stolen it. But Nick and Little Job had become hilarious,and preferred catching crabs and sousingSemanthy and the Baby, and rocking the boatfrom side to side to see how far it would tip withouttipping over, to going peaceably along. And all Semanthys remonstrances were in vain,until, suddenly, she espied a black cloud swiftlyclimbing the sky. Look there, boys! she cried. There s asquall coining! Now I guess you 11 hurry ! And they did. Nick and Little Job were notwithout sense, and they had not lived on that dan-gerous, rocky coast, where sudden flaws camedown from the mountains, and squalls came upwith scarcely a moments warning, in the calmest, sunniest days, for nothing. Evenstood the situation there was little danger in a the Baby under-?boat, unless. CAP N SIAH HADLOCK. it should grow so dark before they got home thatthey could not see their way, or the waves shouldrun so high as to swamp their boat—and the cap-tains gig was not a boat to be easily wished they were at home, but her chiefanxiety was for Saul, out in a sail-boat,—and sucha queer, new-fangled one, too ! Pooh ! Saul knows how to manage any sail-boat that ever was! said Nick, scornfully, whenSemanthy expressed her fears. And if he did nt, those fellers know how tomanage their own craft, said Little Job. The black cloud spread so quickly over the skythat it seemed as if a pall had been suddenly-cast upon the light of day. The water was withouta ripple, and there was a strange hush in the was a relief to Semanthy when a flock of gullsflew screaming over their heads—the stillness wasso oppressive. Then the wind swooped down suddenly and THE CREW OF THE CAPTAIN S GIG [November, tiercel} upon them. On the land they could
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