Captain Brand of the Centipede""

el, which gave him a sharp twitch every now and then when the sea caught the rudder on the wrong side. Near at hand, with an arm around an after top-mast b

ng his position, and climbing up to the break of the deck cabin, he steadied himself by the shrouds, and rubbing his eye with the sleeve of his shirt, he gave

wheel; and just take this 'ere glass and trip up to the fore-yard, and s

d forward, stopping a moment at the caboose to take a tin pot of coffee from the cook, and then, going on to the topsail-sheet bitts, he carefully seated himself, and leisurely began to stir up the sugar i

eck t

jaculated

and after, sails down, and sweeping along the

ng into the tin pot with a sound li

e futtock shrouds to swing into the standing rigging, he sudden

ils. There! Perhaps ye can see him from the deck, about a handspike clear o

began again the cymbal pot and s