He was overboard, after his classmate, ere the marine had had time to leap to the life buoys.

It was one of the life buoys.

He now rested, holding on to both buoys.

I have the life buoys.

" At the same time, holding to both of them, but kicking frantically with his feet, Dalzell managed slowly to push the buoys toward Dave.

He raised his head a little in the water, and caught sight of Dan and the buoys.

While Dave clutched at one of the life buoys Dalzell shot out an arm, dragging Hallam in to safety.

Now, it was Darrin who, with both arms, contrived to link the buoys together.

" From where they lay as they hung to the buoys the chums could even see the launches lowered.

Dan, with some of the emergency lashing about the buoy, succeeded, after a good deal of effort, and with some aid from Dave, in passing a cord about Hallam and under the latter's armpits that secured that midshipman to one of the buoys.

The next move of the chums was to lash the buoys together.

" To not one of the trio did it occur to let go of the life buoys and sink as a means of ending misery.

"Get those life buoys in, if you can," begged Dave, as he sank in the bottom of the launch.

" From officer and seamen alike a laugh went up at this request, but the life buoys were caught with a boathook and drawn aboard.

There was good-humored laughter above, and a look of amazement on Ensign White's face until the two buoys, attached to lines, were thrown down over the side.

And, Mr. Darrin, I am particularly interested in your incidental determination to preserve government propertythe life buoys that you brought back with you.

A single bound carried him to one of the night life buoys.

In the acts of Congress, as we have already seen, the inducement and object of the appropriations are expressly declared, those appropriations being for "light-houses, beacons, buoys, and public piers" erected or placed "within any bay, inlet, harbor, or port of the United States for rendering the navigation thereof easy and safe.

President Jackson conceded the constitutionality, under suitable circumstances, of the improvement of rivers and harbors through the agency of Congress, and President Polk admitted the propriety of the establishment and support by appropriations from the Treasury of light-houses, beacons, buoys, and other improvements within the bays, inlets, and harbors of the ocean and lake coasts immediately connected with foreign commerce.

[Footnote 72: Appropriations made by Congress within eleven years for light-houses, beacons, buoys, etc, on Lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, St. Clair, Erie, Ontario, and Champlain; duties collected and expenses of collection at each of the lake ports annually for eleven fiscal years, ending June 30, 1856; tonnage of the lake ports, etc.] WASHINGTON, February 19, 1857.

But in certain places all the time and at others part of the time, wreckers have had to leave valuable wrecks a prey to the merciless sea because the ocean is too angry and the waves too high to permit of the safe handling of the air-hose and life-line of the divers who are depended upon to do all the under-water work, rigging of hoisting-tackle, placing of buoys, etc.

The Welsh coast was studded with windmills, all in motion, and the harbor spotted with buoys, bells and floating lights.

Mark beat up, on short tacks, therefore, until he found the two buoys between which he had brought the ship, and passing to windward of them, he stood off in the direction where he expected to find the reef over which the Rancocus had beaten.

Just as the Bridget was passing the two buoys by which the ship-channel had been marked, her sail flapped.

The two buoys that had marked the narrow passage were found, high and dry; and the anchor of the ship, that by which she rode after beating over the rocks into deep water, was to be seen so near the surface, that the stock could be reached by the hand.