Men stood in shirt-sleeves at their cabin doors in the unwinking sunshine, looking up the valley or down, betting that the "first boat in" would be one of those nearest neighbours, May West or Muckluck, coming up from Woodworth; others as ready to back heavily their opinion that the first blast of the steam whistle would come down on the flood from Circle or from Dawson.

On one of these vessels, called the "Mary Jane," was a cabin boy, who was a friend of the Morris boys, and often brought them presents.

She was well on her way before a light here and there in a cabin window showed that, Sunday morning as it was, the earliest risers were beginning to stir.

It was some ten minutes before he returned, followed by two men who bore between them a heavy bronze chest which they placed upon the cabin floor.

First a long, straight shaft of white light shot straight up through the cabin roof to a great height.

Captain Selover was lying dead drunk across the cabin table.

" "Cabin!" echoed the captain, who perceived none of the requisites of a cabin-passenger in the other"Oh!

The cruelties of Cornwallis, Tarleton, Rawdon, Tryon and Butler were still in the minds of the people, and the boy, as he gazed on his father's sword hanging on the cabin wall, often declared he would some day take it and avenge the wrongs done in years gone by.

When I took the boat at Erie, it being rainy and somewhat disagreeable, I took a cabin passage, to which the captain had not the least objection.

The contrast of the starry night with the glare of the cabin lamp dazzled my eyes.

The log cabin myth.

Log cabin family.

They pitched the waves right over our bulwarks, and now and then dashed a bucketful of water down the cabin skylight, swamping the ladies' cabin, and setting scores of bandboxes afloat.

We were all sitting around in the two cabin rooms and believe me, it was some giggling match.

We have had luncheon, and I have been poking things out of my cabin trunk, and furtively surveying onethere are two, but the other seems to be lost at presentof my cabin companions.

Most of the colonists were rather doubtful whether these certificates would ultimately prove of any value, and preferred to rest their claims on their original cabin rights; a wise move on their part, though in the end the Virginia Legislature confirmed Henderson's sales in so far as they had been made to actual settlers.

She moved away from the door of the first cabin companion.

Who took his place I never knew, but a stout fighter the lad was, wielding his cutlass viciously, so that we held them, with dead men littering every step to the cabin deck.

In absolute terror I drew her with me to the open doorthen stopped, paralyzed; the half revealed figure of a man appeared on the cabin stairs.

The four cabin places were taken by Count B, myself, and two young people who hoped to make their fortune sooner in the Brazils than in Europe.

"Who put out the cabin light, Senor?" "I am sure I don't know; was it out?"

The cabin home and the narrow clearing about it formed his playground.

I begged permission to seat myself on the cabin steps, which I received; but, after a few minutes, an order came from the commandant to take me under cover.

She did not turn her eyes to it, but happened to note that the Spaniard caught a glance from Jim Framtree, as he spoke his last words; also that Framtree arose, looked aft from the cabin doorway, and turned back with a smile.

He passed his time in devising schemes of vengeance, and when Captain Hardy, relenting, offered him a cabin aft, he sent back such a message of refusal that the steward spent half an hour preparing a paraphrase.