Identifier: stnicholasserial221dodg (find matches)
Title: St. Nicholas (serial)
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905
Subjects: Children's literature
Publisher: (New York : Scribner & Co.)
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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him silently, and he covered herover with the second overcoat, tucking it in un-der her feet. I 11 never forget what you redoing for me, as long as I live, said she.I— Her lips moved, but she could saynothing more. That s all very well, Mistress, said Dred,gruffly; never you mind that now. Jack looked long and fixedly at the youngladys face, pallid in the growing moonlightwhich sparkled in her dark eyes. She lookedsingularly beautiful in the white light. Wherebe ye going ? called out Dred, suddenly. Keep to your course ! And then Jack cameback to himself and the things about him with astart, to find the yawl falling off to the wind.Then once more Dred settled himself in hisplace, relieving Jack of the tiller. PresentlyDred took out his tobacco-pipe and filled it.He struck fire with the flint and steel, holdingthe tiller under his arm as he did so. Then helit his pipe, puffing hard at it for a while. D ye see, said Dred, beginning abruptlywith the thoughts in his mind and without any
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JACK AND DRED RESCUE ELEANOR—THE START. 376 JACK BALLISTERS FORTUNES. o/ 7 preface, according to what I calculate, theywont be able to folly us afore to-morrow arter-noon. D ye see, they have no boat to go upto the town to give the alarm; and so they 11have to wait for somebody to come down fromthe town to them, or else go over to one of theplantations and borrow a boat. Then they vegot to get a crew together to man the sloop.In course, arter they do have her mannedthey 11 overhaul us fast enough; but if we haveso much start as we re like to have, why, t islike we 11 keep it till we get up into the Sound.Jack listened, saying nothing. He had beenup the greater part of the night before, and hehad been dozing off every now and then, andagain awakening with a start. Now, as Dredtalked to him he felt himself drowsing with thesounds coming dimly to his ears. D ye see,said Dred, after puffing away at his pipe for awhile in silence,— and once more Jack arousedfrom the doze with a start a

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