Helm hard up, peak down, head sheets to windward, and main sheet flying, but it was all too late; away she went plump ashore to windward.

Helm, nor hauberk's twisted mail, Nor even thy virtues, tyrant, shall avail To save thy secret soul from nightly fears, From Cambria's curse, from Cambria's tears!' Such were the sounds that o'er the crested pride Of the first Edward scattered wild dismay, As down the steep of Snowdon's shaggy side He wound with toilsome march his long array.

Fair laughs the morn and soft the zephyr blows, While, proudly riding o'er the azure realm, In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes, Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm, Regardless of the sweeping Whirlwind's sway, That, hushed in grim repose, expects his evening prey. II.

Believe me, myour comfort and happiness must depend on your grasping the helm at once and firmly; ruling us, and ruling with a strong hand.

Zál humbly kissed the earth before the king, And from the hands of Minúchihr received A golden mace and helm.

"Hard up your helm, or you will be into me!" Still no answer; and, jumping to the wheel, the captain jammed it down, and they came up flying into the wind.

He caught his sails aback, and his vessel having stern way, he shifted his helm, backed her round, and, filling away on the other tack, stood directly for the pirate.

Hard up your helm!" "Hard up your helm!"

"Hard up your helm!" shouted the captain, and, springing aft, he found the helmsman jammed under the tiller, and the second mate vainly endeavoring to heave it up.

" "Can you see them yet?" asked Fernando of Williams, who sat well up in the stern holding the helm.

As she answered to her helm and payed off, bringing the wind aft, high land was seen astern.

While the battle was raging, the surgeon, Doctor Voorhes, who was badly wounded, and whose horse had been shot under him, approaching Mrs. Helm, the wife of Lieutenant Helm, with his face the picture of dread and despair, asked: "Do you think they will take our lives?

While the battle was raging, the surgeon, Doctor Voorhes, who was badly wounded, and whose horse had been shot under him, approaching Mrs. Helm, the wife of Lieutenant Helm, with his face the picture of dread and despair, asked: "Do you think they will take our lives?

Mrs. Helm, pointing her finger and directing the attention of the doctor to him, cried: "Look at that young man; he dies like a soldier!" "Yes," said the doctor, "but he has no terrors of the future; he is an unbeliever.

" A young savage sprang at Mrs. Helm, whose horse had been shot, and raised his tomahawk to strike her.

Mrs. Rebecca Heald, the young captain's wife, like Mrs. Helm was mounted on a horse.

Lieutenant Helm was wounded in the action and taken prisoner.

Mrs. Helm was slightly wounded in the ankle, and had her horse shot from under her, when assailed by the savage from whom Black Partridge rescued her.

But still Captain Morgan maintained the same composure that he had exhibited all the while, only now and then delivering an order to the man at the wheel, who, putting the helm over, threw the bows of the galleon around more to the larboard, as though to escape the bow of the galley and get into the open water beyond.

In two minutes more it would have been aboard of them, when in a moment Captain Morgan roared out of a sudden to the man at the helm to put it hard a starboard.

In response the man ran the wheel over with the utmost quickness, and the galleon, obeying her helm very readily, came around upon a course which, if continued, would certainly bring them into collision with their enemy.

Then, spying Count Bougars, that had come to see him hanged, he lashed at his helm, and stunned him, and took him prisoner to Beaucaire.

At the helm A seeming mermaid steers.... ...

To make the vessel answer the helm it was necessary to go faster than the current, and difficult to do this without proceeding at such a rapid rate as would, if we had chanced to take the ground, have stuck us upon it immovably.

But the patriot party in Carthage were not disposed to give up the struggle so cheaply; faith in the nobleness of their cause, confidence in their great leader, even the example that had been set to them by Rome herself, stimulated them to persevere, apart from the fact that peace of necessity involved the return of the opposite party to the helm of affairs and their own consequent destruction.