But as the wind is fresh, and the schooner liable to drift, I doubt if it will be prudent for me to leave her so long.

You have my best wishes for your success, however.
I shall watch the chase with interest through my glass; and, better still, I will see that Palmleaf has dinner ready at your return .-- Here, Weymouth and Donovan, let down the boat, and row these youthful huntsmen to yonder ice-bound shore!" Ah! if we had foreseen the results of that hunt, we should scarcely have been so jocose, I fancy.

Well, coming events are wisely hidden from us, they say; but, by jolly! a fellow could afford to pay well for a glimpse at the future once in a while.
Each of us boys took a musket and eight or ten cartridges.

I'm not likely to forget what we took with us, in a hurry.
"We'll put the bayonets on, I guess," Kit remarked.

"It's a big lump of a beast.