Part 33 (1/2)

”Wait till I get ler I meet; and as to that blackavised scoundrel who ca!”

A couple of hours later, after seeing the lugger's masts and sails slowly disappear, the cutter was once e, the lieutenant had hie, and carefully search the rocks for solers and their shore friends had been more careful this time, and search where they would, the cutter'sof the kind, and the lieutenant had hiside, ready to send along shore to the cove to seek for tidings of Gurr and dick but altering his mind, he had the little vessel un the coast till the cutter was abreast of the cove,--the first place where it seemed possible for a boat to land,--and here he sent a crew ashore to bring his two men off

CHAPTER NINETEEN

”How ot?”

”Three”

”What colour are they?”

”Black, white, and grey”

”Turn round three times, and catch whom you may”

That, as everyone knows, is the classical way of beginning the ga that the blinded et a squint of light up by the side of his nose, and also supposing that he confuses hi round the proper number of tinorance of the direction of door, , or the salient objects in the room

Take another case Suppose a lad to have eaten a hearty supper of some particularly hard pastry The probabilities are that he will either have the peculiar forht he will get out of bed, and go wandering about his room in the darkness, to awake at last, cold, confused, and asking hiive a reasonable answer to his question

It has fallen to the lot of so--words, these, which can only be appreciated by those who have passed through a sih these experiences more than once, and fully realised the peculiar sensation of helplessness, confusion, and brain nuure of speech, for the obscurity is generally relieved by soht which does enable a person to see his hand before hian to come back to his senses, would have left pitch far behind as to depth of tint

His head ached, and there was a feeling in it suggestive of the contents having been turned into brain-fritters in a pan--fritters which had bubbled and turned brown, and then been burned till they were quite black

He opened his eyes, and then put his hands up to feel if they were open

They were undoubtedly, and he hurt the the test, for he half fancied, and he had a confused notion, that a great handkerchief had been tied over theh they were undoubtedly open he could not see In fact, when he closed thee as it may sound, he felt as if he could see better, for there were a nu up and down and round and round, like the tiny sparks seen in tinder before the fire which has consu but trying to think, for his irl who, suffering froo”

Archy Raystoke'stiain in his back, for he gradually beca the inconvenience for a long time, he thrust his hand under his spine and drew out a piece of iron, sharp-edged and round like a hoop

He felt better after that, and fell to wondering why he had brought his little hoop to bed with him, and also hoas that his little hoop, which he used to trundle, had beco the hoop made him wince, for his back was sore and his aran ”to go” a little more, and he had to turn back o forward, and wondered how soon it would be , and thecurtains at the foot of the bed would show streaks of sunshi+ne between

Time passed on and he still lay perfectly quiet, for he did not feel the slightest inclination to move after his late efforts, which had produced a sensation of the interior of his skull beginning to bubble up with fire or hot lead rolling about But as that pain declined he felt cold, and after a great deal of hesitation he suddenly stretched out his hands to pull up the clothes

There were none

His natural inference had been, as he was lying there upon his back, that he h there were no bed-clothes, he earing his own, only upon feeling about with no little pain they did not seeet then, but so, and he recalled theabout the Channel