Adrift in the Wilds

re, in the bright moonlight, some smoke could be seen rising-whe

we do?" exclaimed Elwo

trust to P

drowned than burned to death. Come,

d been seated, as if he intended to spring overboard, when his arm

don't make a fool of

rd, "we can both swi

can-swim li

recovered from his excitement, "the land is miles off, and

oes tha

of the steamer made a s

d toward shore

fro, all quiet and still, for they knew too well what the result would be if the alarm was communicated to the sleeping passengers. The pilot had headed the vast craft toward land, and by the furious throbbing of th

wever, who were lingering on the promenade deck, some smoking-here and there a couple of lovers all unconscious of everythin

been said, when a man, who apparently had been stretched out sound asleep

ompassed on every hand by death, and then suddenly m

of the steamer, and now began that fearful confusion and panic which no pen ca

tern of the steamer, earnestly and anxio

oward, "for every second

ach the shore, and when the time comes we shall all be in the sea to

p overboard this very minute, before the sea is full of the poor fellows. They'll

we hunted our life-pr

t me uncle wear one of 'em for six months, and then die with the fav

ning to get nervous. "See, the fire is spreading, and

vation, and must soon become unmanageable, when everything would be turned into a pandemo

low. The owld staamer is going like a straak of lightn

no danger,

stern. In this fearful position Tim O'Roone

ez ri

es

d yez a little to the left, Howard, so as not

truck the water. They went below the surface, the boys sinking quit

called out Elwood, n

the Irishman, as he rose on a h

y clothes bother

to the ocean. But Elwood was a fine swimmer, and he struggled bravely, although at a great disadvantage, unt

he asked, panting

f. "I struck the water so close that

brought something else with us beside this. We have got

what

laims a part. Gracious! her

Tim, "but this owld horse ha

een struggling and rap

od swimmer," remarked Howa

es natural; don't you see it

e never thought about him

being among his friends. The sagacious brute seemed to understand how frail the tenure was that held th