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Allan cast off the painter of braided leather, and with his boat-hook pushed away He poled out into the current, then raised the sail of woven rushes like that of a Chinese junk

The brisk north wind caught it, the sail crackled, filled and bellied hugely He hauled it tight A pleasant ripple began to athered speed

"Boston and way-stations!" cried he But through his jest a certain sadness seealow and blotted out all sight of their garden in the wilderness, then as the little wharf vanished, and nothing now remained butwhich olden-rod to her lips

"Froo"

"I understand," he answered "But this is no ti's sunshine, life, hope--we've got a world to win!"

Then as the yawl heeled to the breeze and foamed away down stream with a speed and ease that bore witness to the correctness of her lines, he struck up a song, and Beatrice joined in, and so their sadness vanished and a great, strong, confident joy thrilled both of them at prospect of as yet to be

By ated Harlem River and the upper reaches of East River, and ell up toward Willett's Point, with Long Island Sound opening out before thenificent palaces that once had adorned the shores of the Sound, no trace re was visible but unbroken lines of tall, blue forest in the distance; the Sound appeared to have grown far wider, and what see current set eastward in a manner certainly not produced by the tide, all of which puzzled Stern as he held the little yawl to her course, sole alone in that vast blue where once uncounted thousands of keels had vexed the brine

Nightfall found the a fair course about five or six ulls and one or two quick-scurrying flights of Mother Carey's chickens (now larger and swifter than in the old days), and a single "V" of noisy geese, no life had appeared all that afternoon Stern wondered at this A kind of desolation sees in our vicinity back home on the Hudson," he remarked to Beatrice, who now lay 'midships, under the shelter of the cabin, warht wind "It see had happened around here, doesn't it? I should have thought the Sound would be alive with birds and fish What can the matter be?"