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At first they thought they were ruined; then Dick, searching, found the old saw under a tree, and the butcher's knife near it, as though the knife and saw had been trying to escape in coan to recover so of their scattered property

The remains of the flannel had been taken by the cyclone and wrapped round and round a slender cocoa-nut tree, till the trunk looked like a gaily bandaged leg The box of fish-hooks had been ja been picked up by the fingers of the wind and hurled against the same tree; and the stay-sail of the Shenandoah was out on the reef, with a piece of coral carefully placed on it as if to keep it down As for the lug-sail belonging to the dinghy, it was never seen again

There is humour sometimes in a cyclone, if you can only appreciate it; no other form of air disturbance produces such quaint effects Beside the great main whirlpool of wind, there are subsidiary whirlpools, each actuated by its own special imp

Emmeline had felt Hannah nearly snatched froireat stor Hannah fro him out to sea, was a belief which she held, perhaps, in the innerhy would have been utterly destroyed, had it not heeled over and sunk in shalloater at the first onset of the wind; as it was, Dick was able to bail it out at the next low tide, when it floated as bravely as ever, not having started a single sea at the woods as a aps here and there, but what had really happened could not be seen till one was ast the trees Great, beautiful cocoa-nut pal, lay crushed and broken as if trampled upon by some enormous foot You would coreat cable Where cocoa-nut palainst a fallen nut; you rown, and wee baby nuts, not bigger than small apples, for on the same tree you will find nuts of all sizes and conditions

One never sees a perfectly straight-stemmed cocoa-palm; they all have an inclination from the perpendicular more or less; perhaps that is why a cyclone has more effect on them than on other trees