Part 17 (1/2)
Jimmie wondered where the shore was A yard or a mile away? In which direction would it be best to strike out? How could he help Bagg? Heto drown But how could he help hi, anyhow? If he could not row ashore, how could he et ashore hi was said Neither boy breathed Both waited And it see aboard But the water ca's shoulders--to his chin--it see already had a stifled sensation--a frantic fear of s; a wish to breathe deep But he did not stir; he could not rise
The boys felt a slight shock The water rose no more There was a rounded!” Jimmie Grimm stuttered
The silence continued
”We sure is!” Jiasped, his teeth chattering with the fright that was not yet passed
Silence again
”Ahoy, there!” caht
”What you boys doin' out there?”
”We're in Burnt Cove,” said Ji ”'Tis Uncle Zeke's voice--an', ay, look!--there's the cottage light on the hill”
”We're co shouted
The boat had grounded in less than three feet of water Ji it The boys eed her ashore just as the rain and wind ca from the open sea
That's why Jih:
”Sixty seconds so would add
CHAPTER XVI
_In Which Archie Ar Joins a Piratical Expedition and Sails Crested Seas to Cut Out the Schooner ”Heavenly Ho could speak French; it was just as true, as Bill o' Burnt Bay observed, that he could jabber it like a native There was no detecting a false accent There was no hint of an aard Anglo-Saxon tongue in his speech There was no telling that he was not French born and Paris bred Archie's French nurse and coslish tutor had taken care of that The boy had pattered French with the forun to prattle at all
And this hy Bill o' Burnt Bay proposed a piratical expedition to the French islands of Miquelon which lie off the south coast of Newfoundland
”Won't ye go, b'y?” he pleaded
Archie laughed until his sides ached
”Coed; ”there's like t' be a bit of a shi+ndy that Sir Archibald hisself would be glad t' have a hand in”
”'Tis sheer piracy!” Archie chuckled
”'Tis nothin' of the sort!” the indignant Skipper William protested
”'Tis but a poor man takin' his own from thieves an' robbers”
”Have you ever been to Saint Pierre?” Archie asked