We hung on to a couple of stays and watched them.

It was a rousing big lead, a foot long, and the line ran out over a pulley at the stern.

A sailor took the lead a good way forward before he threw it, so as to give it a chance to get to the bottom before the steamer passed over it and began to tow it.

When they pulled it in, we were surprised to see that it took three men to do it.

Then Mr.Randall scooped out a piece of tallow that was in a hollow in the bottom of the lead, and took it to show to the captain, whose room was on deck.