ied her while Ralph climbed in. Then the Captain tumbled in himself, picked up the oars, and settled down for the pull to the outer beach.

A dory, as everyone acquainted alongshore knows, is the safest of all small craft for use in heavy weather. It is unsinkable, for one thing, and, being flat-bottomed, slips over the waves instead of plowing through them. But the high freeboard is a mark for the wind, and to keep a straight course on such a morning as this requires skill, and no small amount of muscle. Ralph, seated in the stern, found himself wondering how on earth his companion managed to row as he did, and steer at the same time. The strokes were short, but there was power in them, and the dory, although moving rather slowly, went doggedly on.

"Let me take her," shouted Ralph after a while, "you must be tired."

"Who, me?" Captain Eri laughed. "I could keep this up for a week. There isn't any sea in here. If we were outside now, 'twould be diff'rent, maybe."

They hit the beach at almost exactly the right spot, a feat which the passenger considered a miracle, but which the Captain seemed to take as a matter of course. They beached and anchored the

dory, and, bending almost double as they faced the wind, plowed through the sand to the back door of the station. There was comparatively little snow here on the outer beach the gale had swept it nearly all away.

Mr. Langley met them as they tramped into the hall. The old gentleman was glad to see his assistant, for he had begun to fear that the latter might have tried to row over during the evening, and met with disaster. As they sat round the stove in his room he said, "We don't need any wrecks inside the beach. We shall have enough outside, I'm afraid. I hear there is one schooner in trouble now."

"That so?" asked Captain Eri. "Where is she?" "On the Hog's Back shoal, they think. One of the life-saving crew told McLaughlin that they saw her last night, when the gale first began, trying to make an offing, and that wreckage was coming ashore this morning. Captain Davis was going to try to reach her with the boat, I believe."

"I should like to be at the life-saving station when they land," said Ralph. "It would be a new experience for me. I've seen the crew drill often enough, but I have never seen them actually at

work."

"What d'you say if we go down to the station?" asked the Captain. "That is, if Mr. Langley here can spare you."

"Oh, I can spare him," said the superintendent. "There is nothing of importance to be done here But it will be a terrible walk down the

just now.

beach this morning."

“Wind'll be at our backs, and we're rigged for it, too. What d'you say, Mr. Hazeltine?"

Ralph was only too glad of the opportunity to see, at least, the finish of a rescuing expedition, and he said so. So they got into the oilskins again, pulled their sou'westers down over their ears, and started on the tramp to the life-saving station.

Here, the sun, which had been trying to break through the clouds for some minutes, shone squarely into Uncle Jack's eyes.

"Hello!" he cried, "it's cleared up! Outdoors with you, young folks! We can finish the story later on. And yonder comes Dr. Worth to remind me that I promised to accompany him this morning on a short trip."

TO THE PUPIL:

1. Rebel means to fight against lawful authority; avalanche, a snow slip or a vast body of snow, ice, or

earth sliding down a mountain; eternal, everlasting, never-ending; interval (inter=between, val=a wall) a space between; acceptable, sure of being received with pleasure, pleasing to the one who receives; freeboard, distance from the gunwale to the water; doggedly, unyieldingly, obstinately, persistently.

2. Put the proper one of these defined words in each of the following sentences. Do not consider freeboard or doggedly.

When steep mountain sides are shaken by a violent earthquake, great masses are often detached from their sides and descend as N. S. Shaler. Sometimes buries an entire village. We

in the Alps an should not

against the commands of our superiors.

By scouring the coast, and posting men at proper

their [the enemy's] retreat can easily be prevented.

Cooper, "The Pilot."

vigilance is the price of

liberty. Let the words of my mouth and the medi

tation of my heart, be

in Thy sight, O Lord, my

Strength, and my Redeemer. - Psalm xix.