However, praise the Lord, we're all safe, and I wish I could say as much for our poor commerades.

It'll take two days to get the fleet together, and then we shall hear more." At midnight a lull became easily perceptible, and the bruised, worn-out seafarers gathered for a little while to hold a prayer-meeting after their fashion.

They were dropping asleep, but they offered their thanks in their own simple way; and when Ferrier said, "I've just had a commonplace thought that was new, however, to me: the fishermen endure this all the year, and do their work without having any saloons to take shelter in," then Fullerton softly answered, "Thank God to hear you say that.

You'll be one of us now, and I wish we could only give thousands the same experience, for then this darkened population might have some light and comfort and happiness." And now let me close a plain account of a North Sea gale.

When the weather is like that, the smacksmen must go on performing work that needs consummate dexterity at any time.