zail, as you may see; but he can't go far, for he be alone to-day."
But Lord Meersbrook had mounted his own horse and flown to the spot, followed by the man, and Sally, putting her child into a neighbour's arms, followed also, determined, as she said, "to see what would come on it."
Although the trepidation and anxiety under which Lord Meersbrook now suffered prevented him from giving the shout he meditated being seen, he was attended to, and the fishermen soon put about and neared the shore sufficiently to learn his desire to be taken to a vessel about two miles distant, which he believed to be the Thetis.
"I am sorry to zay, zur, I fear ye be mistaken. I ha zeen nothin' o' the zort."
"But your wife has, and she showed it to me."
"That's enough; Sally's eyes are always right, but I ain't got my pardner, and I fear your man bean't worth a farden; bezides, he got the beasts to zee to."
"I am an old sailor myself; we shall manage very well."
"Just as if I couldn't help him," said his wife; "as if I hadn't helped him scores o' times!"
"Well, but thee knowz I promised, when the led were born, I'd never ask thee agin; but come along, the'll be precious useful, I know."
And thus, indeed, she proved; for so accu-
