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Show 184 TILE J,lBl-:1\T'l Bl!Ll•· of an old cotton ltrm(lkercbief: they looked for grcn.t leaping fishes, when they hn.d once seen a fish leap ; and even learned the names of a porpoiso and a black fish : and they talked for an hour together a.bont bow there could be so many little brown birds in a. place so wat.ery, where there were no hedges for miles a.nd miles for the creatures to roost in. rrhey had a. good many companions on board, going on tho same errand,some wiser than themselves, an.(l some very silly, and even brutish. From tho wiser they beard a littlo about the country they were going to, and found it was really tnte that, if they choso to work hard, they might in time have n. cottage and a bit of land of their own. This new hopo brightened their minds again ; and the brutish beha.viour of the worst of their companions bound their hcariB together more than before ; so that the voyage was quito an education to them; nnd they would haie landed in tho colony very different pooj>le from what they were when they left their parish, if they 185 NAN'S LOT IN I.IF.t:. had ever landed in nC\'er did. the colony at nll. But they One night, when tlw . h . y ad nil got t I spite of the heat tho o s cop, in ,_ ' y were aw;lkcnod b suoek and crash. Tl . Y a great reef. r 1C ship had struck up The water came in so th on a coral they could not at the captain said go on. l\Iot·eoy . tiiOugh he did not tl. ei' others said ' uat most 1ikol ' go to tho bottom . th t . y C<crybody would ' a It was doubtf I tho ship would h ld u whether . o together til! da r I d1d that and Y 1g It. It just ' ' no more. 'Vhen the b . , . came up out of tho lazmg sun . sea, there was not vessel above wat . d much of tho CI, an only a fi f gcrs were to be cw o the passen-scen. BttL a d N three children wer tl 'n AN and their e I ere -look. each other a d . mg sometimes at ' n sometimes at tho land . so near that they th . ' whwh was ought It would b thing that ever . e the hardest wns If they could not . The captain was d get to It. rowned the . must shift for the I , mate satd, and they mse vcs, the best While they we . way they could. 1rc6 •s tarmg at tho In nd • (a curious |