21/41 Naturalists are agreed." "But I am not. And little I expected that anything of me would be left this morning, except, perhaps, my back hair. Accordingly, that very evening a piece of stout twine, with a stone at the end of it, hung down from the roof of Helen's house; and this twine clove the air until it reached a ring upon the mainmast of the cutter; thence it descended, and was to be made fast to something or somebody. The young lady inquired no further. |