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Mayo grabbed one of the yawl davits and sprang to the rail

"We're so as the haystack stays

thick enough I guess we needn't worry!" re his ear to listen to the ht astern He knew that ine, but he had resolved to

keep shouting

"This way, men! This ith that boat!"

"'Vast heaving on that howl!" coht His attention was confined wholly

to his efforts, and he was not prepared for the sudden attack fros and yanked hi man fell heavily, and his head thu him into insensibility

When he opened his eyes he looked up and saw a hanging-laimbals as it swayed to the roll of the schooner He was in the

Polly's cabin Next he was conscious that he was unable to ainst a stanchion, his hands lashed

behind hiht support But the

most uncomfortable feature of his predicament was a marlinespike which

was stuck into his mouth like a bit provided for a fractious horse,