Part 2 (1/2)

”Oh, look dere, dere! what dat ru to a short distance from the raft

dick looked, and sahat a sailor dreads e shark which was noiselessly gliding by, just beneath the surface, and turning its wicked eye towards Charley and hiht easily upset the raft, when they to a certainty would becorasped his pole to do battle, should the creature co the water on every side and shouting at the top of his voice

The shark, an arrant coward by nature, kept at a distance, but his dark fin could still be seen as he circled round and round the raft, waiting, dick feared, for an opportunity to rush in and make an attack

”He shall pay for it with one of his eyes, if he does,” said dick to himself

”What forout 'youngster' sometimes?” inquired dick ”Because you have a fancy for it, I've a notion, and so I have a fancy just now to shout away I hten the little chap,” he muttered to hi after”

Thus dick sat on till he thought by the position of the sun that it ave Charley his dinner and cup of water--he hi his scanty store and depriving the child of food

”I can hold out er than he can,” he said to hiet into bad case”

Every now and then dick stood up and gazed around the horizon, anxiously looking out for the signs of a breeze whichbeneath the ocean, which continued glass-like as before At length night crept over the world of waters, and the brilliant stars shone down from the dark sky, each one reflected clearly in the s up dere?” asked Charley, waking suddenly froet me some to play wid, dick”

”Just what I can't do, boy,” answered dick ”All those are stars far away in the sky, and I have heard say they are worlds; but how they stop up is more than I can tell, except God keeps thes we can't,” said Charley ”But if I ask Hiive ives us ant and what is good for us, but He chooses to keep those stars where they are, for He knows that if He sent one of them down they would only do us har ain,” and dick shut down the lid of the basket

Charley's questions, however, had set his ht hts which he had always seen there, and yet had troubled himself so little about And then he was led to think of the God who s he had heard in his boyhood came back to hisGod, and go I am sure He will take care of this little chap, and th felt very sleepy He had been afraid to shut his eyes, for fear of the shark, but he could no longer prevent the drowsiness creeping over him: he lashed hi off it, and placing his head on the basket, closed his weary eyelids

The bright bea above the horizon as they fell on his eyes awoke hiht of the fin of the shark gliding by a few feet off The monster's eye was turned up towards him with a wicked leer, and he believed that in another instant the savage creature would have ht into requisition, and the rapid blows he gave with it on the water soon made the monster keep at a respectful distance He would not shout out, for fear of waking Charley

The boy slept on for a couple of hours longer, and when he at length awoke, seeh dick had cut up soht not have to wait for breakfast after he awoke He had on the previous day carefully dried his clothes and bedding, and given him such food as he required-- the child, indeed, could not have had a better nurse

dick calculated that the store of provisions he had stoay in the basket and his own pockets would last a week, and he hoped before the termination of that time to be picked up He, in reality, in consequence of anxiety, suffered more than the child: had he been alone, he probably would not have felt so much

The day passed away as before Occasionally sea-birds flew overhead, and huge fish were seen swi the calm surface as they poked up their noses or leaped into the air

”Oh, dick, dick, what dat?” suddenly exclailittering in the bright sun, leaped on to the raft, so into the child's basket

dick quickly secured the to feed the little boy with raw fish, they would, he knew, afford hied to have some to play with, and was s quickly become dry, and that in a few seconds they were dead

dick enjoyed a better supper than he had had since the hurricane began, and he always afterwards declared that those fish had kept his body and soul, when he would otherwise have been starved--although those he reserved for aday required a keen appetite to e floated on the cal weaker than he had ever before been in his life, and yet he would take but a few drops of water from the beaker, and would not eat a particle of the food more than was necessary to keep the life in hih for Charley Yet dick had not been distinguished aood qualities, except that he was looked upon as a good-natured, kind-hearted, jovial fellow, and brave as the bravest; yet so weretheir last sleep beneath the ocean

The faithful fello often found hi off to sleep when he wished to be awake--and afraid that on one of these occasions Charley et out of his basket and tumble overboard, to s in such a way as to allow the child to sit up when inclined, and look about hi down asleep with his head on the edge of the basket, when he heard Charley's voice sing out--

”See, see--what dat?”

dick opened his eyes, and casting thee vessel under all sail running down before the wind, which she brought up with her