The Pilot and his Wife

iansen used to come out oftener to Torungen with provisions

any quarrels into which his too ready tongue was wont to bring him. He was eighteen years old at this time; had been already engaged as an able seaman; and was in great request at the Sandvigen and Vraangen dances,-a fact of which he was perfectly well aware. Old Jacob's granddaughter, being a little girl of only fourteen years of age, was of course altogether beneath his notice, and he didn't condescend to speak to her. He merely deliv

nd seemed to think that he must know everything. And finally, she wanted to know what it was like on shore among the great folk of Arendal, and particularly how the ladies behaved. It afforded him much amusement at the time to see with what simp

that he made all the haste he could to get his business done. While he was thus occupied, the little girl told him all about the Naiad, and the part her grandfather had taken in the action. Salvé, who was ruffled, and thought the old man had been an ill-mannered

e Naiad! This is the first t

e out at the moment to see the boat off, and

believe you were on boa

if he didn't deign to enter upo

s only little girl

his eye fell upon his granddaughter standing there, so evidently incensed and resentful, he

foot here as if he had the deck under him-"when, with one broadside from the Dictator, the three masts and bowsprit were shot away, and the main deck came crashing down upo

e manner of the sacred text, "he who stands here and tells the tale had

rsona, violently gesticulating with his fists, and steadily advancing all t

per of a ship's cub; and if it wasn't for your father, who has sense enough to rope's-

given vent for thirty years perhaps, he turned with a

eigning to say good-bye to her. And her grandfather was cross enough himself; for