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the builder, who said no room was left for decoys under the decks

Just now, those tin cans orth more than many duck decoys

"Keep down!" I ordered "And hold on!" The boys obeyed aze bent on me, as the source of their hope, their

reliance Jimmy was now free from the first violence of the

seasickness, but I saw Jean's hand on his arm

"Gee!" I heard the latter mutter as the first sea crossed under us

"Dat was a peach" I took heart h

"Bail!" I ordered, and they took their cups to it, while I did all I

could with the long punt paddle totrail of the Belle Helène's search-light swung

across as we rolled, to leave us, the next instant, in blackness As

the seas per, soht for her life, as

e all

So long as the rollers came in oily and black, we did well, but where

the top of one broke under us, we sank deep into the white foa power, and our cockpit filled so that we all sat in

water Only the tanks held us, log-like, and we bailed and paddled:

and after they sae did not sink, norance of youth and boy's confidence that a boy and water are

friends, began to shout aloud We ed on