6 . Captain J 0701's Adventures.

the cove, tninking that the wind would

lull by noon. His wife remembered that
when he had gone a few steps from the
door he returned to bid them farewell
again, and placing his hand on John’s
head, told him to be good, and help his
mother.

The wind increased through the day,
and the tempest was fearful all night.
“Then the light dawned, the ' distressed
family beheld the boat floating upwards,—
but their only friend they never saw again.

With the assistance of a neighbour the
boat was drawn up, and placed in its usual
resting-place in the shed. The children
gathered around it with sorrowful faces,
as if it had been their father’s coflin. The
mother looked silently on the helpless
little ones; then, leaning her face on her
hand, as sherested on the side of the boat,

she wept piteously. Une of the neigh-