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| ‘erept _ nouncement that _ of directors who preside cver one of the city rose. gallantly to her work again. ‘‘ Can't you li@ist the head of the jib?” he added, in a mild*roar. : Peltiah drew along breath. To venture forward, with the terrible billows making a ean sweep over the sharply inclined angle St the slippery deck, seemed an almost im- _* possibility, but the situation was a desper- ' ate one. ~ Clinging as best he might to the shat- tered rail, and thence to the fore rigging, he got hold of the halyards, and by using his whole strength succeeded in getting the jib itself up, for with the bonnet off it was only a comparatively small head sail. And now the Donna was enabled to out- run the pursuing billows which hissed and n her wake. ) ched to the skin, and with every nerve ata tension, Jack kept the schooner before the awful breath of the hurricane with the utmost difficulty, and when his strength gave out relinquished the wheel to his companion. It was almost impossible to tell whether it was day or night, so intense was the pitchy darkness, only illumined by the lu- rid glare ot the lightning. ‘‘Neither Peltiah nor I can stand this much longer,” muttered Jack, as_ he hed under such shelter as the low ‘ter rail afforded and watched Peltiah, o, an unskilled helmsman at best, had all he could do to keep the schooner from broaching to. ‘« Les’ — try — and--lay—her—to!” bel- lowed Peltiah, who knew in theory that this was often done in a gale of wind. The same thought had occurred to Jack a moment before. He had once been off shore with a yachting party from Mapleton, and called to mind how cleverly old skip- per Flanders had laid the yacht to under short sail in a sudden blow from the west, without so much as shipping a sea. Nodding his head in assent, Jack stag- gered to his feet, and, taking the wheel from Peltiah’s hands, shouted a few brief instructions in his ear. Up to his waistjin water, Peltiah managed to get forward again. The jib sheet was al- 2ady- trimmed oP anil Bet. as it had been nning of th le. oe ttle by little the schooner’s head up to the wind, whose terrible force an to be even more apparent, Peltiah took in the sheet inch by inch till it was flattened in all it would bear. An end of the halyards passed round the short boom, and bent to an opposite ring bolt, served as a “‘ preventer” in case of the parting ot the shaft itself, at the same time somewhat relieving the great strain on the boom aud sail. The helm was put hard down, and now, under the balance reef foresail and bit of a jib, the tiny craft began to climb the wall- like seas with a curious sideways motion. Then, balancing for a moment on the tow- ering crest, she would slide down, down, till seemingly swallowed up in a terrible valley of dark waters, only to rise for a repetition of the same performance, But the Donna ‘‘laid to” like a duck, and after vainly trying the one pump (for the vessel was not on an upright keel ten seconds at a time) the two made the wheel fast with the tiller pushed hard to port, and crawled below, pulling the scuttle over as they descended. ( To be continued. ) Ask your newsdealer for Tue GOLDEN AR- cosy. He can get you any number you may want. sy PENSIONED CAR HORSE. Que lot of every street-car horse is not an ‘one. They are not all kept at work yy drop in the harness, or become so worn out that they are condemned, while still ving, to the bone-yard. n r conveys the pleasing san- : Peta the members of the Sard railway lines, have been presented with pho- tograp neP. Old. Billy,” who was retired some time ago. Billy is a ear horse thirty-five years old, and has been running for the com- pany for a quarter of a century. ring this time he has not lost e single day from sick- ness or inability, and when he was retired he . hie doing his regular trips from Boston to rookline in a jana satisfactory manner. He is a white horse of pure Morgan blood. When he was thirty-two years old_the presi- dent of the road ordered a box stall fitted ur for him, and he is treated with as much kind- ness as though he were human. To give him exercise he hauls the feed-box around the tuble every day and seems to be proud of his oad, With the Fert gee of being wheezy he ition. in sound con has plenty of room for experts and leaders, your poem entitled ‘*T CORRESPONDENCE. We are always glad to oblige our readers to the extent of our abilities, but in justice to all, only such questions as are of general interest can receive attention. We have on file a number of queries which will be an- swered in their turn as soon as space permits. J. A., Joliet, Ill. No premium on 5 cent piece of 1836. J.M. M., Brooklyn, N: Y. See reply to W. F. D. in no. 239. Cc. E. M, Statistics on the length of boys’ feet are not at hand. F. R. R., Topeka, Kans. in book form. W. L. B., Hopkinsville, Ky. No premium on 3 cent piece of 1852. WEEKLY Reaper, Des Moines, Ioa. No premium on half dollar of 1808. ConsTanr READER, Paducah, Ky. Neither coin is of any special value. A Reaper, Allegheny, Pa. your question to a local paper. Cc. M. L., Patterson, N. M. We cannot undertake to recommend special houses. Pop, Trenton, N. J. Questions as to tae reliabil- ity of business houses are debarred. H. L., Jr., Columbia, 8.C. We hope to publish other stories by the authors named. CoNSTANT READER, Jersey City, N. J. ‘‘ Ready About” will be published about the first of Sep- tember. Nemo, Yonkers, N. Y. 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