But, ladies and gents, before I dived I had another look at my book, hoping to find something to comfort a dying man.

I turned to page 201." Eliph' Hewlitt found the page, and pointed to the heading with his finger.
"'Five Hundred Ennobling Thoughts from the World's Greatest Authors, including the Prose and Poetical Gems of All ages,'" he read.

"There they were-sixty-two solid pages of them, with vingetty portraits of the authors.

I read No.

285: "As Thou has made Thy world without, Make Thou more fair my world within,' et cetery." "Whittier, J.G., commonly called the poet of liberty, born 1807, died 1892'-- with a complete sketch of his life, a list of his most popular pieces, and a history of his work on behalf of the slave.
"I was much comforted by this," said Eliph' Hewlitt, "and I run over the pages this way, thinking of what I had read, when I hit on page 927: 'Geography of Land and Sea.' I skipped ten pages telling in an interesting manner of the five great continents, their political division, mountains, lakes, and plains, their vegetable inhabitants and animals, their ancient and modern history, et cetery, and I come to 'Islands, Common, Volcanic, and Coral'; and on page 940 I read that coral islands are often surrounded by a reef on which the waves dash, but that there is usually a quiet lagoon between the reef and the island, with somewhere an opening from the sea into the lagoon.
"When I read that," said Eliph', closing the book, "I shut up my book and swum round until I come to the opening, which was there, just like the book said it would be, and I swum across the lagoon, and fell exhausted on the beach.