It is Sympathy, Feeling, and Hope, That pull out in the Life-boat to fling ye a rope.

This thought took hold of her and found expression in this hymn on a stormy night at Whitby, after she had seen the life-boat put forth to a wreck, hence the expressions, "Pilot," "Lifeboat," and "Haven."

After being resuscitated, one of the men gave a vague account of having encountered a waterlogged life-boat containing several people who had perished from exposure, and of certain papers and possessions found on one of them.

Anyway, he didn't say anything about a life-boat, that's sure.

We must, it is true, organize our life-boats.

Ham says he's made his yacht a life-boat.

The work done already by the life-boat men had been a good one; and it had not been very easy, either, for they had brought the crew and passengers safely through the boiling surf, and landed them all upon the sandy beach.

The captain ordered their only life-boat lowered, and, turning to the crew, he shouted, for the roaring of the wind was terrible, that he with twelve men would set out for shore, and after landing eight with himself and officers, would send the boat back for others.

For some moments he paced the narrow confines between the life-boats, then stepped into the wheel-house.

He had dragged the unconscious figure to the shadows behind a life-boat.

As it was necessary to give the horses a few days' rest previous to swimming them off to the ship, I started this morning in the life-boat, accompanied by Captain Dixon and Messrs. Brown, Harding, and Walcott, to examine the eastern shores of the bay, for the purpose of ascertaining whether a more suitable spot for a landing place and site for a future town could be found in that quarter.

Permit me, kind reader, to add one line more, and in that line make mention of Life-Boat, No. 5.

A nation should not be a mere light-house, a stationary beacon, erected upon the coast to warn voyagers of their dangerbut a moving life-boat, carrying treasures of freedom to the doors of thousands and millions in their lands.

Meanwhile a party of men had seized the life-boat, and had pushed it over the sand to the water's edge, where they launched it, and with much difficulty kept it from grounding until four young men, all bathers, jumped in and manned the oars.

Then with bold speed he flew, The life-boat launched, and dared the smiting rocks.

"Right here in the eastern part o' Connecticut lives a man who set out for the vicinity of the moon with a large companya joint-stock companyin his life-boat.

Thirty beds are kept for shipwrecked sailors; a patrol for above eight miles (being the length of the manor) is kept along the coast every stormy night; signals are made; a life-boat is in readiness at Holy Island, and apparatus of every kind is ready for assisting seamen in distress;wrecked goods are secured and stored, the survivors are relieved, the bodies that are cast on shore are decently interred.

They could see the life-boat, and the people collecting the spoils which had floated thither from the ship, but no relief came.

When those on shore were asked why they did not launch the life-boat, they replied, "Oh! if we had known there were any such persons of importance on board, we should have tried to do our best!"

They'll bring round the life-boat.

Have you raised the alarm?" "I told the life-boat people, sir, and then ran on.

"Have you put out the life-boat?" said Dr. Rowlands anxiously.

"Ill luck, sir," said one of the sailors, touching his cap; "the life-boat went to a wreck at Port Vash two days ago, and she hasn't been brought round again yet.

Looking Forward [Illustration: [cursive] Your friend, the Author James H. Foss] CHAPTER I. LAUNCHING OF MY LIFE-BOAT.

The eldest Marguerite introduced some of her aged friends, who had ventured forth to witness the launching of the frail life-boat, to the youngest; the youngest Marguerite introduced some of hers to the eldest; the Marguerite linked between made some of hers known to her mother and to her child.