It is you, Miss Jane, I come to see, not this little curly head that'll git me ashore yet with her cunnin' ways.

They're goin' to build a new life-saving station down Barnegat way.

That Dutch brig that come ashore last fall in that so'easter and all them men drownded could have been saved if we'd had somethin' to help 'em with.

We did all we could, but that house of Refuge ain't half rigged and most o' the time ye got to break the door open to git at what there is if ye're in a hurry, which you allus is.

They ought to have a station with everything 'bout as it ought to be and a crew on hand all the time; then, when somethin' comes ashore you're right there on top of it.