It's a sort of sixth sense with a sailorman to be able to detect a stormy atmosphere, and I felt that the yacht wasn't the place that the dove of peace would choose as a permanent abode.

A fast yacht is a handy vessel south of the line, and some queer tales were told about the boat that had once shown her heels to the crackerjacks in the Solent.

They's a few other words I've always hoped to have a chance to spell in the reg'lar co'se of life, sech ez y-a-c-h-t, yacht, but I suppose, livin' in a little inland town, which a yacht is a boat, a person couldn't be expected to need sech a wordless'n he went travelin'.

However, they condescended to be pleased at the idea of a sailing party, for, as there was no water near their own home, a yacht was a novelty to them.

It burst upon us in all its fury, and the yacht became a tiny seesaw upon the murderous Himalayas that rose around us.

No, my dear Gordon, depend upon it that the yacht running ashore was all a blind.

Once or twice Heatherbloom rather incoherently tried to engage one or two of them in conversation, to learn where the yacht was goingto Southern seas, across the Atlantic?but they only stared at him as if he were some strange being quite beyond their ken.

The yacht was a speck in the distance by that time, and far beyond it the Cheviots and the Lammermoors were mere bits of grey outline against the gold and crimson of the sky.

Of course, any salt-water fish will have long since discovered that this wonderful yacht is a leviathan plaything, and totally unfit to withstand the most moderate gale, especially if any sea were running.