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The Boy Patriot

CHAPTER VI
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CHAPTER VI.
A PILOT.
It is strange that the moon generally has all the blame for fickleness, when the sun quite as often hides his face without sufficient warning.
The Fairport Guard had hardly made the circuit of the town, before the late smiling sky was overcast by dark hurrying clouds, and the weatherwise began to predict a coming storm, which was to be "no joke on sea or land." Luckless members of the Fairport Guard who had not had the precaution to tie on their head-gear, might be seen breaking rank and running indecorously in various directions in pursuit of hat or cap, while the skirts of the captain's time-honored coat flapped in the wind, like the signal of a ship in distress.
It was in the endeavor to complete their usual tour, by passing along the wharf, that this military body was subjected to this attack from old Boreas.

Worse confusion, however, soon broke up all order among them.

A group of men on the wharf had been for some time looking at a ship nearing the harbor.

They could not make her out, they said.

She was a stranger in those waters, and yet bore the American flag.


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