Captain Brand of the Centipede""

Blunt, but Ben and me made out a fore-and-aft schooner airly this morning, with sweeps out,

all schooner at dayligh

n a clear, quick no

with sails down and sweeps

were directed toward the now dim mirage-like shadow of the island, and the next instant the shar

he gangway, and soon an officer stepped over the side and tripped down to the boat. The white blades of the oars stood up on end in a double line, the boat pushed off, the oars fell with a single splash, and she steered for the brig. Descending down i

paulet on his right shoulder and a sword by his side stepped over the gangway. The skipper was there to receive him, to whom he touched his cap with his fore finger; but as his eye glanced aft he saw a lady, and he gracefully removed hi

" he said, turning to the skipper, "and if you wi

, and getting hold of the officer's sword, which trailed along by 18 its belt-straps on the deck, he got astride of it, and seized on to the coat-skirts of the wearer. The little tug he gave caused the offic

reefer you'll make one o

little scamp, as he looked know

him; and then turning to the child with a blush spreading over h

little fellow like this, but both he and his s

s, as if the dream was too sad to dwell upon; but changing his tone, and while with

ood captain here carried my sister and myself to France soon after, where Monsieur––" here she hesitated and blushed

im at his estate of Escondido; you know it, madame? in the grand piazza which looks down the gorge. But he behaved very shabbily," said the officer, as his face lighted up

n, as with sparkling eyes and heaving bosom she cried, "Ba

charge, who was trailing the sword about the deck, immediately approached the

ell from a dark as a fair skin," said the officer, in a l

as the clear 19 sound of the cruiser's bell str

s way, if you please"––as he raised his cap to Madame Piron and

o me by the mate,"

send f

Mr.––

dual, touching his hat and mak

rly make out the vessel you sa

ut Ben Brown there was on the fore-y

I see t

few pokes about the lee waist, Ben was roused ou

enant, as if he was in the habit of asking

hed up his knife-belt, and wiped his mouth wi

he

, "just clear of that bluff foreland whe

s she r

d. I see her first by the flash of her sweeps in the rising

sts, yo

as a jigger-like yard a-sticking out o

d compressed lip; "that will do; thank you, my man." Then placing his hand o

you much acquainted

regular traders here, from Bordeaux

ume?" went on the of

dollars and a guinea or two in the bag for a few sacks of suga

breeze springs up, keep as close to the corvette as you can, and I

should happen, you had better hoist a lantern at your peak or in the main-rigging––we have sharp ey

ter a playful struggle with the youngster, he buckled it around his waist, and, stepping lightly over the sid